Contemporary
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English teacher and writer Joe Pastorious is a jazz fan, Leicester based poet, and a victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother. In a journey through real-time dialogues that emerge from Joe’s corrupted memories and dystopian dreams, follow this trip through Joe’s unconscious mind to learn more about Joe – and perhaps more about our world – than you could ever imagine.
You are left to your own devices to decide if you think there are any heroes or villains in this book. Whatever you decide, your moral boundaries will be pushed to the limit.
However there is always hope. For Joe Pastorious, that comes in the form of a psychopath named Janet Waverley.
Love Before Covid is both a highly melodramatic, and deeply mysterious novel – a book drenched in abuse, heartbreak, hope, and disorientation. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be.
Here's what readers have to say about this book....
Love Before Covid brilliantly starts some much-needed conversations. It is ridiculously thought provoking and you will obviously have your thinking provoked in a different way to me. It can resonate with you and disgust you in equal measure. I am still ruminating. And for that reason, I strongly recommend that Love Before Covid be read in tandem with other people, in much the same way as any perplexing and bewildering film should be watched with others and consequently discussed. This is important because the fiction elements of this book are very much influenced by cinema, particularly the films of directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lars Von Trier and David Lynch.
