Richard's Review:
This review is aimed squarely at readers of a certain age who remember a classroom romance with the usual mix of emotions – tenderness, amusement, possibly regret, and, yes – curiosity. Perhaps you haven’t seen your playground paramour for years; decades even. What have they become? What do they look like?
For Helen, in Mike Gayle’s touching and thought-provoking A Song of Me and You, the answers to both those questions are not hard to find. She may have parted from Ben when they were both 18, both to go their very separate ways, but Helen knows EXACTLY what he looks like 20 years on, and EXACTLY what he’s become.
Because while Helen disappeared into anonymous university life, fate took a somewhat different turn for Ben. He joined a band. The band had hits. Ben is now a bone-fide, multi-millionaire rock star. And he’s about to arrive on Helen’s doorstep.