Lost in the ’80s

Description

Liam Gallagher is a boy from a working-class terrace in Rochdale, growing up in the shadow of strikes, family arguments, and the re-lentless pressure to be “good enough.” As the 1980s dawn, Liam’s world is a tight circle of textbooks, kitchen-table debates, and the se-cret hope that life might offer more than the mill or the dole queue. When he wins a place at Manchester University, the city opens up—a world of new ideas, new friends, and the intoxicating possibility of escape.

But freedom comes at a cost. Navigating the minefields of class, sex-uality, and family expectation, Liam finds himself torn between the safety of old routines and the dangerous thrill of first love. From the smoky pubs of Manchester to the hidden corners of Canal Street, from the picket lines of the miners’ strike to the AIDS crisis that shad-ows a generation, Liam’s journey is one of heartbreak, hope, and the search for a place to belong.