Mike Gayle - Hope Street - Book Launch

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have MIKE GAYLE joining us here at The Heath Bookshop for the Book Launch of 'Hope Street'. 

Mike will be in conversation for around an hour. There will be a book signing afterwards. 

Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. After graduating from Salford University with a degree in Sociology, he moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and worked as a features editor and agony uncle. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan.

Mike became a full-time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by the Independent as 'full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations', and by The Times as 'a funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic'. Since then he has written eighteen novels, including The Man / Think / Know, selected as a World Book Night title, and Half A World Away, selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club.

His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2021, Mike was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.

He lives in Birmingham with his wife and kids.

Hope Street: 

Emotions you'll never forget, stories you'll want to share. The much-anticipated new novel from bestselling author Mike Gayle is a beautiful story of community, hope, determination and finding love.

Lila Metcalfe is a trainee journalist at a local Derby newspaper and is very used to being given the stories that no one else wants to cover. So, when her editor tells her that the city's Cossington Park development is being held up by a solitary resident on Hope Street who is refusing to leave, she assumes it's an elderly person being stubborn about leaving their home.

Soon she is despatched to the crumbling community to find out more. And that's how she meets Connor.

Twenty-something Connor is the sole resident of Hope Street and he is not at all what Lila is expecting. Navigating a world he doesn't always understand, he refuses to leave the house he grew up in. And he has a very clear reason not to move: he is waiting for his mum to come home.

The uplifting and heartfelt new novel from the author of A Song of Me and You.

@mikegaylethenovelist

As always, we look forward to seeing you. 

Catherine & Claire