RavePop MattersThere are glimmers of happiness amidst the gloom, and her life, like her surroundings in the countryside of Lancashire, had a certain beauty – but it was a ‘difficult beauty’ ... Throughout this inspired work you are definitely rooting for the central ‘character’ of the young Jeanette, whose journey is confused, frustrating, tragic, but reflected upon with a genuine quality of honesty ... Read this as an investigation into the creation of an author – a 20th century Lancashire David Copperfield. Read it because it\'s a memoir of striking honesty, realism and wit. Read it because it is also the Romance of a life in pursuit of love.