October 12th, 2007
A Novel by Brendan Halpin
Have you heard the latest popular songs about the cheating girlfriend or the inept boyfriend? Ever wonder about the sad sap who’s subject of that song?
Phillipa Strange is a fresh from high school punk rock girl living in London with her father when she is immortalized by her boyfriend in a song he writes about her moment of infidelity. The song gains the band instant fame, thrusting the band into the blockbusters, and Phillipa becomes notorious.
Mark Norris is a sensitive campfire boy. He meets a girl he falls in love with in college. When she moves away to L.A. to persue her music career, he finds himself the victim of being labelled a “two-minute man” in the song that puts his ex-girlfriend on the Top 40.
The book is about how these two deal with thier newfound and undesirable “fame”, and how it, along with other circumstances, lead them down a long, painful and twisted road that eventually brings them to each other.
This book is entirely out of my normal genre, but I found it to be quite a fun read. It is what I would describe an “easy” read. It is not long, nor filled with big, unpronouncable words. But the story is cute and it is a delightful lunchtime read.