Jack Byrne

writer

A novel approach-Liverpool and Brexit

Looking for readers for a new book pre-publication – blurb below- click the link and leave a comment and your email on the blog- 20 will be accepted

The morning after the Brexit vote 2016 and history professor Vinny’s world is turned upside down. What starts as a minor traffic accident grows in importance as the truth behind it is revealed.

South Liverpool comes to life in this novel, real characters inhabit a world of daily struggles. A secret Vinny, Sammo, and Macca vowed to keep as kids would tie them to a life-changing day, involving the theft of a pocket watch, and an old man’s death.

Sammo is found dead. In his quest to find out what happened to Sammo, Vinny uncovers more than he wants to know, as the past steps into the present. Will Vinny do what is right, accept who he is? Will he let go of the secret he holds and the truth he discovers, the truth about community, humanity and solidarity. This page-turner will have you hooked from start to finish.

This is a story of the life and times of a group of young friends and the nation to which they belong. Defining moments in 1981 and 2016 bookend this dramatic story of secrets and lies, death and disaster showing how they as individuals and we as a nation got to where we are.

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7 responses to “A novel approach-Liverpool and Brexit”

  1. Liz Lambton Avatar
    Liz Lambton

    I need to read this book, it has me hooked already.

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  2. Frank Thomas Avatar
    Frank Thomas

    Looking forward to this one many thanks

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  3. Tales From the Greenhills Avatar
    Tales From the Greenhills

    Hi Jack – I’ve been trying to reply to you for a few days regarding the guest blog comment that you sent about my Greenhills novel. Links were not working. I wouldn’t mind a forward read of Under The Bridge. My direct email is terrymelia@hotmail.com

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  4. Phil Avatar
    Phil

    Sounds like a read I would be interested in.

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  5. Mike Adams Avatar
    Mike Adams

    Sounds compelling reading

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  6. Edward Miller Avatar
    Edward Miller

    Would be an interesting read. How much would be factual based how much fiction? A large student population in Liverpool did it play any part in the result? Will we recognise the parts of the city?

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      jackbyrnewriter

      Hi Edward, i will send it to you. Have a read and let me know what you think. I will be happy to hear your thughts- you have already prompted me to revise something in the text. So make sure you let me know what you think. Thanks Jack

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About Me

Thanks for visiting my page. The aim of this page is to let you know what I am working on and allow you to tell me what you think.

I was born and raised in Speke Liverpool, although my parents first lived ‘Under The Bridge’ in Garston, and all my family goes back to Wicklow in Ireland.

The Liverpool Mystery series will be four novels, three books; Under The Bridge, The Morning After, and Fire Next Time are finished. Under The Bridge will be published in Feb 2021 and I hope at least one more will follow later in the year. I am writing The Wicklow Boys now, and I hope to finish it next year.

My writing like my blog is about the lives of working people and how they relate to society as a whole.

My collection of short stories The One Road is available below click to see details.