Book description
It's 24 December, 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet -
half-cut and suicidal - sits on a stationary train at King's Cross
waiting to depart. In his lap is a bag containing his remaining
worldly goods: an empty bottle of red wine, a few books, a handful of
crumpled banknotes. He is on the run. Not from the usual writer's
trouble - money trouble, soul trouble - but special trouble, of a type
you may have problems identifying with at first.
As the journey commences, he conjures memories (painful and comic
alike) of the recent past, of his roller-coaster London life, and of
Mandy - his Amazonian wife - in an attempt to make sense of his
terrible, and ordinary, predicament.
So what has led him to this point? Where are his friends, his
family?What happened to his dreams? And what awaits him at the end of
his odyssey north?
Byron Easy is an epic, baroque sprawling monster of a novel,
and a unique portrait of love and marriage, of the flux of memory, and
of England in the dying days of the twentieth century by a young
British writer of exceptional promise.
Jude Cook lives in London. He studied English Literature at UCL, and
was a musician and songwriter for the band Flamingoes.
Byron Easy
is his first novel.
