WELCOME TO THE HEADY HEIGHTS
(2019)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Orenda Books, 2019
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781495655074 (electronic bk.) MWT12310615, 1495655075 (electronic bk.) 12310615
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realized. In a bizarre brush with the light-entertainment business, Archie unwittingly saves the life of the UK's top showbiz star, Hank "Heady" Hendricks, and now dreams of hitting the big-time as a Popular Music Impresario. Seizing the initiative, he creates a new singing group with five unruly working-class kids from Glasgow's East End. Together, they make the finals of a televised Saturday-night talent show, and before they know it, fame and fortune beckon for Archie and The High Five. But there's a complication; a trail of irate Glaswegian bookies, corrupt politicians and a determined Scottish WPC known as The Tank are all on his tail. A hilarious, poignant nod to the elusivity of stardom, in an age when "making it" was "having it all," Welcome to the Heady Heights is also a dark, laugh-out-loud comedy, a heartwarming tribute to the 1970s and a delicious drama about desperate men, connected by secrets and lies, by accidents of time and, most of all, the city they live in

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Additional Credits