Hello everyone.
I've written a book which is in the style of a blog, so I've decided to turn it into a real blog. I've just set it up this week and now I need to get people reading it.
I would really appreciate any opinions that you have.
Here is its synopsis:
18 year old Jacob Cox had his life all planned out. He thought he was about to pass his A levels, get into the best university in the country, earn a fortune, and get elected Prime Minister, becoming the most respected statesman the country had ever seen. But best of all he was finally going to escape his family.
A family which consists of a mother whose business involves beating the living daylights out of people and sticking their pet's heads up where the sun doesn't shine. Then there's his ratty face Father who's in the business of running up debt and then running away; a rule dodging, carefree identical twin who likes the good life so long as it's free, and is the exact opposite of Jacob in every way; and a cooler younger brother, Clint, whose sole purpose in life is to point out all of Jacobs faults while acting like he's God's gift to everything. And last but not least, Jacob's psychotic 10 year old sister who he fears just might be more crazy and dangerous than the whole Cox clan put together.
However, Jacob's rise to greatness comes to a shuddering halt when his family make the sudden and suspicious move from Birmingham down to Devon, where it turns out they have taken over a pub, lock, stock and fermenting beer barrel. Instead of being crushed, the irrepressible Jacob sees it as his new springboard to success, but first he must fight his family for control of the business. This includes stopping his twin brother from driving away all of the female staff and customers with his loose loving; ignoring his cooler younger brother whose 'rubbish' ideas are actually much better than his own; and circumventing a ten year old sister whose secret scheming Jacob fears the most. He must also stop his ex-gang boss mother from taking out a rival landlord. If all these weren't bad enough, Jacob suspects that the O'Shea's - his mother's gangster relatives - have some ghastly hold over his shifty, debt riddled father, and are involved in the Cox's mysterious acquisition of their new home.
The new business venture fails to be the early success that Jacob had originally hoped, and if he wants to stay he must act fast or they will all be returning to the Midlands before the summer is out. His plans begin to crumble when loyal customers are killed, and the town mayor brands him a terrorist. He also discovers the love of his life is engaged to one of the most dangerous men in Torquay. All these events lead up to a spectacular finale when one of the top reality TV shows comes to town to film in the Cox's pub. The big event to save the pub goes off with a bang in more ways than one.
Along the way Jacob learns the hard truth about chasing one's dreams and the struggle to hold onto them at any cost, and that home is where the family is
