Stars are Stars - Couverture souple

"Buzzing with post-punk energy and righteous indignation. The result is a novel that has you feeling sad and angry about Thatcher's Britain all over again, and with the simplistic intensity of adolescence" (Independent on Sunday)

"It's when Sampson is detailing the violence of the Toxteth riots that his descriptive powers are really exercised ... Stars are Stars has a solid emotional core - it's about the limits of idealism, and the transformative potential of young love" (Emma Love Time Out)

"More than a love story, this is a love letter to the post-punk scene in Liverpool... Sampson convincingly captures that mindset, peculiar to youth and perhaps to that time, when politics, music and desire could mix and combust to such powerful effect" (Independent)

"Sampson is a fine storyteller... Nasty stuff, brilliantly told" (Guardian)

From the author of the highly successful Awaydays and Powder: fifteen year-old Danny has just one dream: to be an artist and to go, like John Lennon before him, to Liverpool Art School. Then, in the autumn of 1980 the Art School’s funding is withdrawn. Danny slides into apathy, robbing and drug dependency.