Note to Boy

Sue Clark author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Unbound

Published:23rd Jul '20

Should be back in stock very soon

Note to Boy cover

She wants her celebrity life back. He just wants a life...

Eloise is an erratic, faded fashionista. Bradley is a glum but wily teenager.

In need of help to write her racy 1960s memoirs, the former ‘shock frock’ fashion guru tolerates his common ways. Unable to remember his name, she calls him Boy. Desperate to escape a brutal home life, he puts up with her bossiness and confusing notes.

Both guard secrets. How did she lose her fame and fortune? What is he scheming – beyond getting his hands on her bank card? And just what’s hidden in that mysterious locked room?

‘A terrific first novel. Pulls off that incredibly tricky trick of making me love two characters I’d normally cross the road to avoid. I felt bereft when I had to bid them farewell at the end’ Paul Mayhew Archer, comedy writer and co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley


‘Warm, funny, life-enhancing, totally original and, above all, moving … We're thrown into the story and a maelstrom of emotions from page 1. By page 2, I was hooked’ Mike Coleman, TV and radio scriptwriter


‘The sparks which fly between an embittered relic of the Swinging London fashion scene and a young man with nothing to lose, as they gradually reveal their pasts and develop a relationship, are both funny and tragic’ Andrew Crofts, author and ghostwriter


‘Clark is a remarkable ventriloquist, alternating from the working-class vernacular of Bradley to the posh theatricality of Eloise with each chapter. The characters are richly drawn, and readers will quickly become invested in the odd couple, as individuals and as friends. The story is a pleasure all the way through. A funny, immersive portrait of an unusual working relationship’ Kirkus Reviews

ISBN: 9781789650938

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304 pages