Lauren Owen is an indie author from Lancashire and the author of Don’t Let the Rhythm Die — a story about love, growing up together, family, loss, chaos and the ordinary moments that become anything but ordinary.
The stories life wrote. I just held the pen.
Becca and Tobias grow up together through teenage parenthood, marriage, family life, ridiculous arguments, football, grief and all the messy ordinary bits in between. Then one completely ordinary evening changes everything.
It is emotional, sometimes heavy and occasionally wildly inappropriate — because real life rarely sticks to one genre.
Before Don’t Let the Rhythm Die, writing a book had never really crossed my mind. Then life handed me a story I couldn't quite leave alone.
What began with one of the worst nights of my life somehow grew backwards — into nearly twenty years of love, teenage parenthood, family, marriage, loss, football, ridiculous memories and all the tiny moments that suddenly mattered.
I write about real life, mental health and the bits that don't fit neatly into an inspirational quote. Sometimes it's serious. Sometimes it's dark. Sometimes the only reasonable response is an inappropriate joke.
Apparently, that makes me an author now.
“I didn't want to make real life prettier than it was. I wanted it to feel like real life — devastating, ridiculous and funny in the same five minutes.”
Before the hospital corridors, before the grown-up responsibilities, before anyone knew what the next twenty years would look like… there was MSN, £10 phone credit and some truly questionable fashion choices.
And somewhere in conversations like this, a twenty-year story began.
The book is not just about the night everything changed. It is about everything that came before it — because those ordinary years are the reason that one night mattered so much.
Possibly. Probably not. Either way, the aubergine has absolutely no business becoming part of an author brand — and yet here we are.
Read the book. Then you can judge me.
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25 Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JZ
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I'll be there with Don’t Let the Rhythm Die, signed books, bookmarks, little bits and bats, and probably more enthusiasm than table space.
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Books. Mental health. Real life. Dark humour. 2006 nostalgia. Occasional produce-related confusion.