Giles Fraser – Let’s Fly

‘Let’s Fly’ by Giles Fraser is a fresh, pacy and cleverly written thriller and it’s a debut novel as well! One of the things I love about book blogging is that I get to discover books from authors I would not normally know about. Let’s see what I thought.

A story that is set over two timelines 1979 and 2017. The main character is Nick Hunter, he has just left school and ready for anything. He ends up recording a single with his friends while they are squatting in Notting Hill. The friends all move on and the single they made is forgotten. As the years go by the single is used as a soundtrack to a massive movie.
Nick goes on to make a very big error but carries on and ploughs on to become a very successful businessman. The past is about to catch up with Nick and it will threaten everything he holds dear. Is Nick able to make it right before it’s too late?

This is a story of how your choices from the past can still make a massive impact on the future. A book that is quite relevant for the social media age of today. People on social media sometimes do not engage their brain before they write and publish something that will never go away, even years later it can come bouncing back at you.

Nick is a realistic character who is, at heart, a decent man with flaws who does tend to tell a lie sometimes. He has made some mistakes and now finds himself in such a mess. There were times I felt like shaking him but he made this book for me. The pace starts slow but as the story unfolds it begins speeding up, a real rollercoaster of a read. I enjoyed the setting of 1970s London, a raw one with the music references and the culture. I was almost nostalgic for the past as I read this.

Giles Fraser has written a tightly plottd thriller that had me curious all the way to the last page, a sure-fire way to keep me reading! If you like a book that can take you right back while keeping you guessing constantly, give ‘Let’s Fly’ a try, you may be surprised.

Thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours and Matador Books for my copy of the book.