FICTION / OUT NOW
BUT NOW YOU’RE HERE
On a beautiful May morning in 1971 a young man drives his MGB down through the blossoming trees of Primrose Hill to a casually arranged lunch at a Kensington restaurant. Nick Drake and Janice Joplin play on the car stereo, the top is down and, warmed by the spring sunshine, he has no idea the next few hours will change his life for ever, enriching and devastating him equally.
Jonathan Gibbs is a successful young copywriter, working in a sharp dynamic new advertising agency with his urbane and entertaining art director, Simon Daniels – and life is sweet. His lunch date is a stranger to him, a chic, captivating New Yorker living in London. By that evening he is in love.
But Now You're Here is set against a background of commercial deception and the advertising business in London and New York in the last decades of the 20th century. Real events signpost the lives of the characters in this vivid love letter to the two cities, with two massive and bizarrely symmetrical twists along the way.
Jonathan is bright, alert, articulate and successful, on top of his business and the life in London and New York – and yet, you wouldn’t envy him.
It’s a story of deception and delusion, of the self as much as anything else.
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