📱 eBook en inglés THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MIRACULOUS VESPAS

When a young Ayrshire band unexpectedly hits the big time with the smash hit record of 1984, everything looks rosy, despite their delusional young manager and a thwarted plot to kidnap Boy George. What could possibly go wrong? The riotously funny, heartwarming, and deeply poignant second book in the bestselling Disco Days Trilogy.

***Now adapted for the stage by Scotlands Borderline Theatre Co. and the Ayr Gaiety theatre***

This band would definitely bring on Stockholm SyndromeBoy George

An astonishing tour de forceJohn Niven

A great white-knuckle read set in the world of hope, dreams and DIY popStuart Cosgrove

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The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas is the timeless story of the quest for pop immortality. When a young Ayrshire band miraculously hits the big time with the smash hit record of 1984, international stardom beckons. Thats despite having a delusional teenage manager propelled by a dark, malign voice in his head…

Can Max Mojos band of talented social misfits repeat the success and pay back the mounting debts accrued from an increasingly agitated cartel of local gangsters? Or will they have to kidnap Boy George and hope for the best?

Featuring much-loved characters from the international bestseller, The Last Days of Disco, this is an absurdly funny, riotously ambitious and deeply human story of small-town rivalries, music, confused adolescence and, above all, hope, from one of Scotlands finest new voices.

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Praise for David F. Ross

This is a book that might just make you cry like nobodys watchingIain MacLeod, Sunday Mail

Warm, funny and evocativeChris Brookmyre

Crucially Rosss novel succeeds in balancing light and dark, in that it can leap smoothly from brutal social realism to laugh-out-loud humour within a few sentencesPress & Journal

More than just a nostalgic recreation of the authors youth, its a compassionate, affecting story of a family in crisis at a time of upheaval and transformation, when disco wasnt the only thing whose days were numberedHerald Scotland

Ross creates beautifully rounded characters full of humanity and perhaps most of all, hope. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It s rude, keenly observed and candidly down to earthLiam Rudden, Scotsman

Theres a bittersweet poignancy to David F. Rosss debut novel, The Last Days of DiscoEdinburgh Evening News

Full of comedy, pathos and great tunesHardeep Singh Kohli

Dark, hilarious and heartbreakingMuriel Gray

If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was insideIrvine Welsh

Like the vinyl that crackles off every page … as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very bestNick Quantrill

A solid-gold hit of a book! The closest youll ever get to being on Top of the PopsColin McCredie