Harker The Boy and Chloe the Girl: Before the Soldier there was the Boy (The Harker and Carter Series Book 1)

Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. 1970. Liam Harker is sixteen years old, leaving school for a job on the buses, playing guitar in his bedroom, and falling quietly in love with the girl from Bywell Road.

Over the next two years he will lose his grandfather and his father in the same September, enlist in the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, survive basic training at Strensall, and spend a year in Cyprus learning what it means to be a soldier before the real work begins.

Harker — The Boy Before is the first volume of the Liam Harker prequel series — the story of the boy before the soldier, the summer before the war, and the girl whose answer to a question asked on one knee will echo through six books and thirty years of a man's life.

Warm, honest, and rooted in the specific texture of early 1970s working-class Yorkshire, it is the book that begins everything