A recent review of Love, Love Me Do warns readers to not be deceived by the book’s bright and vibrant cover…

… “don’t be fooled by the cheery song-reference title and colourful cover; this debut novel by Brighton-based Mark Haysom is a dark read,” writes Anne Hill, for Sussex Life.

“well-written” and “cleverly constructed” and certainly “not for the faint-hearted.”

1963. The year the Beatles first top the charts. The year Martin Luther King has a dream.  The year Truman Bird moves his family from their home in Brighton to a dilapidated caravan in the Ashdown Forest – then disappears.

For Truman’s wife, Christie, life has not turned out the way she’d imagined. How has she, that young girl of not that many years ago, ended up like this? In a caravan. With three children. And an absent husband.

In this most unique, wise and addictive of British debuts, we discover that life has a habit of getting in the way of dreams – but that people find their own extraordinary ways of bouncing back. 

Purchase Love, Love Me Do here.

Visit Mark’s website here.