Revolving Record Machine

by Kevin McCarthy

Will and Tristan’s bachelor lives are interrupted when a moving van pulls up outside their split-level duplex, after their loud and unsavory upstairs neighbors abruptly move out. Out of the van comes two girls around their college age, and they change the course of their summer forever. Alexis and Lily, close best friends and new roommates, move in upstairs. After leaving an oversized couch on the covered porch, it becomes the key to meeting and making friends with the two guys downstairs. Over the course of the summer the four of them become fast friends, and even more than friends. Will and Alexis bond over their love for music and they pursue it with the help of Tristan. Will and Alexis pursue their musical dreams, and start falling for each other in the process, each helping each other out in different ways. Until everything comes to a halt when they have a large birthday party for Alexis. When sides have to be chosen and fate intervenes.

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 8, 2019

About the author

Kevin McCarthy is the author of the highly acclaimed historical crime novel, 'Peeler' (Mercier Press, 2010). Called a '...dark, brooding, morally complex masterpiece...' by the Belfast Telegraph, 'Peeler' was selected by the Irish Times as one of its Top Ten Thrillers of 2010 and as a Read of the Year 2010 by the Philadelphia Inquirer. His short story "Twenty-five and Out" appears in 'Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century'. Kevin's second novel, 'Irregulars', is published by New Island Books and was shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year 2013. His novel, 'Wolves of Eden', published by W.W. Norton, was selected by Amazon as one of its 20 Best Books 2018. His latest novel, 'The Wintering Place' (W.W. Norton, 2022), a follow up to The Wolves of Eden, was selected by Amazon as one of its 20 Best Books of the Month, November 2022. He is represented by Jonathan Williams Literary Agency.