Brexit Boys

Harry Sherlock can’t get an erection for English Girls. They just don’t do it for him. Luckily, his best bud Tom King has a plan - to backpack across Europe and celebrate GRADUATING from Manchester University like a pair of princes.

But their plan meets a hitch. It’s 2016, and Britain has voted to LEAVE the European Union. So for two English lads inter-railing, their dreams of falling in love may be just that. Dreams. Because the EUROPEAN GIRLS have only one question… Oh you’re English! Did you vote Leave or Remain? And when Harry meets THAT girl, will she like his answer?

Join the BREXIT BOYS as they paint a trail through the great cities of summer-soaked Europe!

I went on a tour of Europe 2016, and though it wasn't nearly as dramatic or full as Harry's journey, it was definitely a moment in time, when relationships between Brits and Europeans were tossed into uncertainty. It got me thinking:

What if the lads' lad, so obsessed with falling in love with a European, couldn't get an erection because of Brexit?

I want Brexit Boys to capture my lonely, lost generation like a great counterculture book should, à la Trainspotting. It’s an ode to backpackers and inter-railers, featuring Krakow, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and more. It’s rude, crude and full of hilarities. It’s a love story or two, brimming with toxic masculinity, cultures clashing, biting social commentary and a few tears. After all, a lad not able to get an erection is funny to everyone except himself, for of course the fact that the girls were English has little to do with Harry's dysfunction...

It's my intention to write a sequel, Brexit Boys In South East Asia, and complete the trilogy with Brexit Boys On The Canary Islands, though not immediately.

For as Robert Frost so eloquently said:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

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