Through the Barricades: Some friendships change your life. Some stay with you forever. - Paperback

Some friendships change your life. Some stay with you forever.

East London, 1979.

Sixteen-year-old Keagan Devlin is charming, reckless and always one step from trouble. Peter Chubb is quieter, sharper, and hiding a secret that will shape both their lives: he has cystic fibrosis, and he has grown up knowing time may not be on his side.

When Keagan saves Peter from drowning during a stolen afternoon at the lido, their friendship deepens into something neither of them fully understands yet - a bond that will carry them through first love, family loyalty, violence, war and grief.

As the 1980s unfold, Keagan falls for Emily, Peter finds love with Jenny, and the four of them begin to imagine futures of their own. But illness, the Falklands War, trauma and devastating choices will test them in ways none of them could have foreseen.

Spanning the changing landscape of Thatcher's Britain, from East London pubs and Ilford dance halls to the battlefields of the South Atlantic, Through the Barricades is a moving story of friendship, love, loss and the promises we make to the people who matter most.

For readers who enjoy emotional British family sagas, coming-of-age stories, 1980s nostalgia and powerful character-driven fiction.