To Be a Man
- ISBN-10
- 1081588411
- ISBN-13
- 9781081588410
- Series
- To Be a Man
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-08-13
- Author
- Roger Knowles
Description
Martin Roberts is his school's rebel without a cause, and all the girls love him. But he has eyes only for one of them - Lisa Godwin. And Lisa Godwin has eyes only for him.At home, his mother is concerned that Martin has displayed no outward signs of emotion since his father left home. Although he feels it, that lack of outward emotion threatens to spoil the recently established relationship with Lisa. The only time those emotions - love, rejection, heartbreak - do come to the fore are when they materialise in the songs that he writes as he plays his guitar.When he leaves school, he and Lisa are forced apart by Lisa's father, and Martin develops an obsession to be a successful songwriter, to give Lisa everything she could ever want and to spend the rest of his life with her. His obsession slowly creates the fame and fortune that he craves, but what really matters to him, Lisa, is no longer by his side. Seventeen years later, his mother sits beside his hospital bed, reminiscing on what might have been. She watches her son's lifeforce slowly fade.To Be a Man is the story of those seventeen years.
