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Runaway

By: Peter May
Narrated by: Peter Forbes
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In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year's end three returned, and returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their 60s, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades.

Runaway is a crime novel covering 50 years of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered and passions lit and extinguished, set against the backdrop of two unique and contrasting cities at two unique and contrasting periods of recent history.

©2014 Peter May (P)2014 Quercus Publishing Ltd Coming of Age Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Historical International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Dream
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I enjoy this author and the narrattion.. story line easy to follow you get involed with the characters. looking forward to listening to more

Another good story.

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As always great story wonderfully written and very well read I recommend all his books

Great read

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Wonderful storyline from the swinging 60s to present day believable characters surprising twists couldn’t put this one down

From Glasgow to London from the sixties to today

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Beautifully narrated! Wonderfully suspend full story splendidly written.
I enjoyed it so much I just didn't want it to finish. Thank you Peter May and well done Peter Forbes!

Absorbing!

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Peter May - what can I say? This and the Lewis Trilogy are such beautiful prose. Even when he is describing the mundane his words are such a pleasure to listen to and always evocative of whatever he is writing about. Runaway is a great story and May manages to tell it with empathy and insight into his elderly characters as he did in 'The Lewis Man'. I found it very moving at times as well as funny and sad. The reader, Peter Forbes, is exceptional, managing to make every character distinct and doing an outstanding job of capturing the reader. I could envisage every bit of this book and could not bear to stop listening. Can't wait for Peter May's next book.

Beautiful, funny, sad - brilliant.

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The worst thing about Peter May books is that they come to an end! Thank heavens there are a lot of them to listen to. such a great book! Peter Ford's narration was exceptional, as usual!

An Excellent Book

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The story was long and drawn out. And the climax - if you can call it that - was uninspiring.

But the performance was excellent.

Definitely not the Mr May’s finest. Several of his other books are better and I chose this because I had enjoyed the others.

Too slow moving for me

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