Hard to find a copy
When I was younger we used to go on family holidays to campsites in Italy and Spain - Keycamp holidays I think they were called.

At the campsites there used to be book exchanges - you left a book and took one - ensuring a regular supply of Bernard Cornwall, Jodi Picoult and Dan Brown.

Once I picked up a book purely for its cover - a badly drawn montage with two teenagers and a yellow spaceman - I wasn't expecting much but I couldn't put it down and finished the hefty tome in just a few days.

I forgot the details of the story but it was about a teenager who had fallen in love with a beautiful girl who was out of his reach being the school geek - classic boy meets girl.

However, one day he is saved from being hit by a car by a mysterious boy seemingly with knowledge of the future. They become fast friends and the boy mentors the protagonist until he disappears not to be seen again for 30 years.

It sounds corny but is really well written, has the classic porn reading baddy who gets his comeuppance and a spaceman who visits our hero at night time - it's heavy.

If anyone knows where I can get a copy of it - 'A match made in heaven' by G. McFly I would be so grateful!

Edit: autocorrect
(aeloen, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:07, 6 replies)

Heavy...
there's that word again...
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:10, closed)

Great scott!!
I have read that book too! Not sure where you could find a copy though. Sorry.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:14, closed)

I found a picture of the cover
(aeloen, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 17:20, closed)

Holy crap!
that cover is awesome.
They just don't make 'em like that any more.

No luck finding it on the interwebs?
;-)
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 17:29, closed)

Nope but I hear it's readily available in Hill Valley, California.

Published in 1985 I believe
(aeloen, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:08, closed)

...and a pic of the author
images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071205055010/bttf/images/thumb/e/e5/Georgeyourfirstnovel.jpg/587px-Georgeyourfirstnovel.jpg
(dchurch bah, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 19:58, closed)