What do you think?
Rate this book
Julia
Julia… Julia… A young man becomes obsessed with his first love, and pursues her relentlessly over the next seven years, following her from city to city, and from country to country. It is his aim to put right what went wrong in those first few months of their affair, and each time he meets up with her, he tries to re-mold and perfect their relationship. He revisits his memories of her, reworking them from different time-perspectives, until his obsession overwhelms him, in danger of becoming a lethal and hysterical mania. He is overwhelmed by the conviction that he must put everything right. He can’t bear to lose the intensity of his youthful passion. He has to possess her. He is determined to continue until… There is also the matter of the other girl, the one he keeps bumping into when he least expects it… Marianne…who becomes a rival to Julia… Which one will he choose? Which one will choose him? Both of them? Will his besotted passion lead to emotional and sexual fulfilment, or plunge him into spiralling madness?
- GenresContemporary Romance
139 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2017
5 people are currently reading
24 people want to read
About the author
Alan Hardy
39 books128 followersI'm a director of an English language school for foreign students. Married, with one daughter. Poetry pamphlets: Wasted Leaves, 1996; I Went With Her, 2007. I've had poems published in such magazines as Orbis, Iota, The Interpreter's House, Poetry Nottingham, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Cornwall, and others. I have now written ten novels. I would describe them as surreal novels with plenty of comedy, satire, humor, romance, sex and adventure. They're shocking, original and respectful of nothing and nobody. You have been warned.
The nine published so far are THE CASE OF THE TATTOOED BUTTOCKS, THE CASE OF THE PINIONED BOSOMS, THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING CORPSES, THROUGH THE GATES, VAMPIRE HUNT, JULIA, GOOD QUEEN BETH, BRITT, and GABRIELLA.
THE CASE OF THE TATTOOED BUTTOCKS, subtitled AN INSPECTOR CULLOT MYSTERY, is a cheeky, exciting murder mystery, with plenty of thrills, surprises, witty repartee, suspense and sexy ladies, let alone a couple of gory murders. The story takes place in a country mansion, with an assembled array of suspects (a mixture of the rich, decadent, sophisticated and louche) who are all perhaps not quite what they seem and hiding God knows what secrets... Even the renowned Inspector Cullot, with his occasional fits of dark despair, and now working in a department store's lingerie section, is tormented by ghosts from his past... And does the bumbling, simple-minded PC Blunt, recording another Inspector Cullot case for posterity in an array of note-books, also have skeletons in his cupboard..? And do the unsolved Night-Club Hostess Murders committed two years earlier have a bearing on the case? And what about the strange tattoos on the buttocks of the gorgeous ladies assembled at the mansion? What does it all mean? You'll die laughing trying to find out.
Check out the two follow-up novels in the series, THE CASE OF THE PINIONED BOSOMS and THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING CORPSES.... let alone THE CASE OF THE TORN YELLOW SOCKS, soon to appear as the fourth book in this hilarious series...
THROUGH THE GATES is a time-travel novel, with the hero (or anti-hero) Mark travelling back to the days of World War Two. He lives in an old house with a big, mysterious garden where he keeps unearthing and discovering objects which draw him back into the past. He's also obsessed with a beautiful young woman he saw when very young, and his attraction towards the past, and journeys into it, are also an attempt to find her and discover who she was... Not to mention the gold bullion buried somewhere in Mark's garden...
VAMPIRE HUNT tells the story of Dr Joseph Aymon's return to Transylvania in search of Bella, his long-lost first love, and in search of vampires...to kill...
JULIA is a novel dealing with a young man's obsession with his first love, and his pursuit of her over seven years. Is he just a young man hopelessly and helplessly in love, or is it something more delusional...or even dangerous?
GABRIELLA is a cheeky, sexy portrayal of young love played out on the sports field. It's romantic, provocative, unabashed, and unapologetic.
BRITT is set in France during World War One, and is a comic, exciting tale of derring-do, spies, aerial dog-fights...and sexual shenanigans... In contrast to this world of sexual abandon and experience, we have Wriggles of the Royal Flying Corps and Britt, his childhood sweetheart. Both are innocents in a world they don't understand, and can't relate to. With a devilishly cunning German spy ring about to escape with top-secret information that might well bring about England's defeat, they are England's only hope. Will they be able to save England, and find true love...?
GOOD QUEEN BETH is a savage, no-holds-barred critique of the monarchy and present-day society, in a novel which is brutal and provocative, yet exhilarating and wide-ranging in events and relationships.
The nine published so far are THE CASE OF THE TATTOOED BUTTOCKS, THE CASE OF THE PINIONED BOSOMS, THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING CORPSES, THROUGH THE GATES, VAMPIRE HUNT, JULIA, GOOD QUEEN BETH, BRITT, and GABRIELLA.
THE CASE OF THE TATTOOED BUTTOCKS, subtitled AN INSPECTOR CULLOT MYSTERY, is a cheeky, exciting murder mystery, with plenty of thrills, surprises, witty repartee, suspense and sexy ladies, let alone a couple of gory murders. The story takes place in a country mansion, with an assembled array of suspects (a mixture of the rich, decadent, sophisticated and louche) who are all perhaps not quite what they seem and hiding God knows what secrets... Even the renowned Inspector Cullot, with his occasional fits of dark despair, and now working in a department store's lingerie section, is tormented by ghosts from his past... And does the bumbling, simple-minded PC Blunt, recording another Inspector Cullot case for posterity in an array of note-books, also have skeletons in his cupboard..? And do the unsolved Night-Club Hostess Murders committed two years earlier have a bearing on the case? And what about the strange tattoos on the buttocks of the gorgeous ladies assembled at the mansion? What does it all mean? You'll die laughing trying to find out.
Check out the two follow-up novels in the series, THE CASE OF THE PINIONED BOSOMS and THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING CORPSES.... let alone THE CASE OF THE TORN YELLOW SOCKS, soon to appear as the fourth book in this hilarious series...
THROUGH THE GATES is a time-travel novel, with the hero (or anti-hero) Mark travelling back to the days of World War Two. He lives in an old house with a big, mysterious garden where he keeps unearthing and discovering objects which draw him back into the past. He's also obsessed with a beautiful young woman he saw when very young, and his attraction towards the past, and journeys into it, are also an attempt to find her and discover who she was... Not to mention the gold bullion buried somewhere in Mark's garden...
VAMPIRE HUNT tells the story of Dr Joseph Aymon's return to Transylvania in search of Bella, his long-lost first love, and in search of vampires...to kill...
JULIA is a novel dealing with a young man's obsession with his first love, and his pursuit of her over seven years. Is he just a young man hopelessly and helplessly in love, or is it something more delusional...or even dangerous?
GABRIELLA is a cheeky, sexy portrayal of young love played out on the sports field. It's romantic, provocative, unabashed, and unapologetic.
BRITT is set in France during World War One, and is a comic, exciting tale of derring-do, spies, aerial dog-fights...and sexual shenanigans... In contrast to this world of sexual abandon and experience, we have Wriggles of the Royal Flying Corps and Britt, his childhood sweetheart. Both are innocents in a world they don't understand, and can't relate to. With a devilishly cunning German spy ring about to escape with top-secret information that might well bring about England's defeat, they are England's only hope. Will they be able to save England, and find true love...?
GOOD QUEEN BETH is a savage, no-holds-barred critique of the monarchy and present-day society, in a novel which is brutal and provocative, yet exhilarating and wide-ranging in events and relationships.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
Want to read
May 14, 2018💝FREE on Amazon today (5/14/2018)!💝
Blurb:
Julia… Julia… A young man becomes obsessed with his first love, and pursues her relentlessly over the next seven years, following her from city to city, and from country to country. It is his aim to put right what went wrong in those first few months of their affair, and each time he meets up with her, he tries to re-mold and perfect their relationship. He revisits his memories of her, reworking them from different time-perspectives, until his obsession overwhelms him, in danger of becoming a lethal and hysterical mania. He is overwhelmed by the conviction that he must put everything right. He can’t bear to lose the intensity of his youthful passion. He has to possess her. He is determined to continue until… There is also the matter of the other girl, the one he keeps bumping into when he least expects it… Marianne…who becomes a rival to Julia… Which one will he choose? Which one will choose him? Both of them? Will his besotted passion lead to emotional and sexual fulfilment, or plunge him into spiralling madness?
Blurb:
Julia… Julia… A young man becomes obsessed with his first love, and pursues her relentlessly over the next seven years, following her from city to city, and from country to country. It is his aim to put right what went wrong in those first few months of their affair, and each time he meets up with her, he tries to re-mold and perfect their relationship. He revisits his memories of her, reworking them from different time-perspectives, until his obsession overwhelms him, in danger of becoming a lethal and hysterical mania. He is overwhelmed by the conviction that he must put everything right. He can’t bear to lose the intensity of his youthful passion. He has to possess her. He is determined to continue until… There is also the matter of the other girl, the one he keeps bumping into when he least expects it… Marianne…who becomes a rival to Julia… Which one will he choose? Which one will choose him? Both of them? Will his besotted passion lead to emotional and sexual fulfilment, or plunge him into spiralling madness?
December 11, 2017
Julia is a different sort of love story. Julia is told from the view point of the man who is obsessed with his first love.
I feel a little sorry for John. He just stumbles his way through his own love story. There were several times I wanted to smack him on the back of the head and tell him to wake up and speak up before he loses the love of his life. Not being a man, I'm not certain if this is how every man makes his way through life. I hope not. It is frustrating to see that all Julia needs from John is a small sign that he really loves her. Because he doesn't give her wants she needs, Julia slips away from him not once - but several times.
Anyway - the story is Mr. Hardy's to tell, so I'll let him, but Julia is a must read.
I feel a little sorry for John. He just stumbles his way through his own love story. There were several times I wanted to smack him on the back of the head and tell him to wake up and speak up before he loses the love of his life. Not being a man, I'm not certain if this is how every man makes his way through life. I hope not. It is frustrating to see that all Julia needs from John is a small sign that he really loves her. Because he doesn't give her wants she needs, Julia slips away from him not once - but several times.
Anyway - the story is Mr. Hardy's to tell, so I'll let him, but Julia is a must read.
November 27, 2017
I have to admit, I first began reading this book because I was intrigued by its title, but as I got into the story, the single-handed pursuit by John of Julia, had me rapidly turning the pages. Will he win her over or will he settle for Marianne? Marianne appears to be space filler for him, and someone whom he uses to compare unfavorable to Julia. The saying, may the best man win, would apply here, only it would be, best woman. Oh the tangled web we weave. Would John finally find his one true love? Get your copy to find out. Highly recommended!
November 27, 2017
I have read quite a lot of love triangles, but I have to say Julia is the most interesting and intriguing one I have ever encountered. I was completely captivated by the hero's obsession with Julia while also being constantly drawn into his encounters with Marianne. This story was so well crafted that I often found myself pulling for both women at the same time. How does it end? Who does our dashing hero choose? I'll let you read this riveting romance and find out for yourself. I look forward to reading more by this author.
December 9, 2017
An Intriguing Love Story!
I enjoyed this romantic read. The hero can’t forget his first love, Julia, and spends the next few years trying to put things right between them. But each time he meets her again, it seems to go wrong… And what about the other woman in his life, Marianne? Who does he really want? Intriguing story.
I enjoyed this romantic read. The hero can’t forget his first love, Julia, and spends the next few years trying to put things right between them. But each time he meets her again, it seems to go wrong… And what about the other woman in his life, Marianne? Who does he really want? Intriguing story.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews