Maybe You're the Same as Me

‘Maybe You’re the Same as Me’ is a romantic comedy drama novel, a coming of middle-age story infused with 90s pop culture references and lashings of nostalgia.

Music can do a lot of things. It can alleviate stress and govern feelings of reward. It can create a rollercoaster of ups and downs, ranging from the euphoric rush of frisson to the therapeutic catharsis of shared sorrow, not to mention induce the power of nostalgia.

Music is always there for you when you need it, however you need it. It creates friendships, forges bonds, amplifies memories, it truly is a gift bestowed upon us by some unseen force. If there ever was a reason to believe in God, music is it.

Was it nostalgia or obsession that drove me to it? Or maybe it was just my way of reclaiming the part of myself that still lived in a time when music came on CDs and there was no social media. I still don’t know. The breakdown of a twenty-year marriage can do strange things to you. Whatever it was, finding her became something I just had to do.

Alice Hartley, the elusive and mysterious front woman from a band I remembered seeing in 97 represented everything I loved about a scene that I still had one foot in. The 90s, Indie, Brit-pop, Cool Britannia, call it whatever you want – it was calling me again (as if it ever really went away). Alice came kno