Fade Into You

Fade Into You

By Catriona Child

Genre:-Contemporary Fiction

Pages:-288

Publisher:-Luath Press

Blurb:-It's 1994, Kurt Cobain has just died, and teenager Alex is spending the summer working in her Aunt's Bed and Breakfast in rural Argyll. The village pace of life is slow compared to home in Edinburgh and Alex resigns herself to a quiet summer spent serving breakfast and making beds. Everything changes however once she meets the twin brothers who live next door.

 Spanning the next fifteen years of Alex's life, Fade Into You is a love letter to growing up in Scotland in the 90s and 2000s. Set against a backdrop of T in the Park and the war in Iraq, sound-tracked by Britpop and Grunge mixtapes, with the sweet taste of tablet, it is a novel about growing up and growing apart. It explores the intensity of childhood friendships, how they change as we get older but how they never really leaves us.

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My Review:-I have to say this is a book that brought back so many memories. Alex spent her summers helping her Aunt in her Bed and Breakfast in Argyle. Next door lives twins Gavin and Banny. They soon build a lifelong friendship. Like any other friendship they grew apart with University, band life and the Army, but there 16 year friendship ended up together again. We learn of Gavin's PTSD and the trauma he has had to go through while in the army.  This is a book about growing up, how life changes through love, loss, break-ups. 

This is a book that I would read again, growing up in the 90s, I would say was the best years of my life. I would recommend this book to anyone that loved 90s or grow up in this era, especially if you loved the music.