Former 'Flamingoes' musician pens first novel: Bryon Easy by Jude Cook

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Byron Easy by Jude Cook
Published in hardback by William Heinemann on 7^th February2013.
A daring and exuberant debut novelfollowing one poor soul's terminal journey home
It’s 24 December, 1999. Byron Easy,a poverty-stricken poet, half-cut and suicidal, sits on a stationary train atKing’s Cross waiting to depart. He has in his lap a bin-liner containing hisremaining worldly goods – an empty bottle of red wine, a few books, a handfulof crumpled banknotes. As the journey commences he conjures memories (painfuland euphoric alike) of the recent past, of his rollercoaster London life, and,most distressingly, of Mandy – his half-Spanish, Amazonian wife – in an attemptto make sense of his terrible, and ordinary, predicament. . . So what has ledhim to this point? Where are his friends, his family, his wife? What happenedto his dreams? And what awaits him at the end of his journey?

Byron Easy is an epic, baroquesprawling monster of a novel, and a unique portrait of love and marriage, ofthe flux of memory, and of England in the dying days of the twentieth centuryfrom a young British writer of exceptional promise.
A poignant and riotous comic novel in the tradition of Kennedy-Toole,Saul Bellow, Martin and Kingsley Amis.
Jude Cook lives in London. Hestudied English Literature at UCL, and was a musician and songwriter for theband Flamingoes, co-foundedwith his twin brother. Flamingoes released two albums twelve-years apart: Plastic Jewels (1995), which was very well received byThe Guardian, NME, Time Out, etc; and Street Noise Invades the House (2007). There at the start of themuch-maligned Britpop movement, the band toured the UK and Europe extensively,ultimately selling 20,000 records worldwide. Byron Easy ishis first novel
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