Writer, artist, and filmmaker, Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel depicts a beautiful coming of age story centered around growing up in the working-class dynamics of Merseyside in the late eighties. For fans of emotional stories about family and ambition and set in the rich history of Liverpool.
As Conor Sterling is about to turn 18, he wrestles with the tough choice to go to art college or look after his sick, dominating grandmother? While life seems to move faster, he falls for a West-Indian girl who his grandmother disapproves of. Conor is torn between doing the right thing for him or submitting to the will of his crazy grandmother.
What follows is a funny and poignant coming of age story set in Liverpool in 1989. The land of The La’s, the Hillsborough disaster and Findus Crispy Pancakes.
- ISBN10 178774373X
- ISBN13 9781787743731
- Publish Date 10 September 2024
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Titan Books Ltd
- Imprint Titan Comics
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781787743731