A story of music, madness and the Manic Street Preachers
In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London hotel instead of flying to the US with the rest of the Manic Street Preachers. There were a few subsequent sightings but then nothing. His body was never found, and he was declared legally dead in November 2008. Now Richard tells the story of his life - and disappearance - as he might have told it.
'This moving, tender novel tells the story of a lost boy adrift in a world that he can't make sense of' Marie Claire
'Myers deserves credit not only for adding a third dimension to Edwards, but for trying a fourth, for attempting to document a period of his life that seems destined to remain a mystery' The Times
'A sympathetic and sad imagining of the boy who became a reluctant pop idol' Time Out
'Harrowing and hauntingly sad' Mojo
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Richard is not a provocation, nor does it claim to solve the Richey mystery. It is a sympathetic and sad imagining of the boy who became a reluctant pop idol before that notion became oxymoronic'
Time Out
