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Taking LeaveJeremy Thomas
Life in 1979 looks pretty good for 25 year-old record producer Tim Lomax. His label is as hot as his new girlfriend and a mega-deal in America looms just over the horizon. But when a family tragedy occurs Tim’s life starts to spin out of control, a fact that becomes increasingly obvious to everybody except Tim himself. A funny book about an unfunny subject, Taking Leave grippingly chronicles one man’s alcohol-fuelled descent into chaos and mental disintegration. Jeremy Thomas grew up in Buckinghamshire and was educated at Downside. Now a full-time writer, his many and varied jobs have included hospital theatre technician, copy-writer, cheese waiter, record plugger and indie label boss. Thomas’s book “You don’t have to be famous to have Manic Depression”, co-written with Dr Tony Hughes, is to be published in September by Penguin, tying-in with the BBC2 series on MD which he has co-produced with Stephen Fry. He lives in London and the Greek island of Patmos with his wife, Jane. Taking Leave is his first novel. Reviews
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