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I Escape Through You
A love story like you've never read before.
A tale of love, loss, and ultimate redemption.
A journey laced with warring mental health, compulsive addictive tendencies, and desperate attempts for understanding and peace. Eventual self-discovery.
Sat in an Edinburgh train station, Lucas recalls meeting Megan, a girl who shines a new light into his dark life, and once again life feels as though it's worth living, but lights are never without their shadows.
Transported back through the years, Lucas intimately retells the spiral of falling in love, the ups and downs, their meetings and exclusions, and his path through the thick and thin. Both Megan and Lucas try desperately to escape their inner demons, finding sanctuary in one another, but never entirely.
Everyone must face themselves eventually. They meet and break. Push and pull. Fix and fall apart.
Through suffering, torment, escape, and ecstasy, can they learn the lesson that will ultimately set them free?
I Escape Through You is a stunningly-written debut novel with a beautifully intimate and delicate style that won't be able to help but relate to. Loved by readers all over the world, this is a book that stings, feeling almost like a personal diary entry that you may have written yourself. Reflections you may see yourself in.
Touching on all kinds of topics from across modern love, including attachment and mental health, follow Lucas as he recalls his story as he falls in love with Megan, and the realisations and lessons he learns along the way.
I Escape Through You is a brilliant story about people, how they connect, how they love, and how that love and connection change over time. It's the need to escape and find our happy endings, but experiencing the stark realisation that true love doesn't come from loving others, but comes from a far deeper, much more real place.
This novel will draw you in, resonate with so many parts of you, and leave you feeling like you've just awoken from a surreal dream.
A love story like you've never read before.
Featured on the LoveReadingUK July 'Indie Books We Love 2021' List!
“When I first heard of ‘I Escape Through You’ by Mike Arnold it sounded like a story of the right person at the wrong time. However, this book is more than that. Taking a more intimate look at mental health, and how people leap into relationships in order to try to fix themselves as opposed to working to fix themselves,” - Charlotte Walker - LoveReading UK
A tale of love, loss, and ultimate redemption.
A journey laced with warring mental health, compulsive addictive tendencies, and desperate attempts for understanding and peace. Eventual self-discovery.
Sat in an Edinburgh train station, Lucas recalls meeting Megan, a girl who shines a new light into his dark life, and once again life feels as though it's worth living, but lights are never without their shadows.
Transported back through the years, Lucas intimately retells the spiral of falling in love, the ups and downs, their meetings and exclusions, and his path through the thick and thin. Both Megan and Lucas try desperately to escape their inner demons, finding sanctuary in one another, but never entirely.
Everyone must face themselves eventually. They meet and break. Push and pull. Fix and fall apart.
Through suffering, torment, escape, and ecstasy, can they learn the lesson that will ultimately set them free?
I Escape Through You is a stunningly-written debut novel with a beautifully intimate and delicate style that won't be able to help but relate to. Loved by readers all over the world, this is a book that stings, feeling almost like a personal diary entry that you may have written yourself. Reflections you may see yourself in.
Touching on all kinds of topics from across modern love, including attachment and mental health, follow Lucas as he recalls his story as he falls in love with Megan, and the realisations and lessons he learns along the way.
I Escape Through You is a brilliant story about people, how they connect, how they love, and how that love and connection change over time. It's the need to escape and find our happy endings, but experiencing the stark realisation that true love doesn't come from loving others, but comes from a far deeper, much more real place.
This novel will draw you in, resonate with so many parts of you, and leave you feeling like you've just awoken from a surreal dream.
A love story like you've never read before.
Featured on the LoveReadingUK July 'Indie Books We Love 2021' List!
“When I first heard of ‘I Escape Through You’ by Mike Arnold it sounded like a story of the right person at the wrong time. However, this book is more than that. Taking a more intimate look at mental health, and how people leap into relationships in order to try to fix themselves as opposed to working to fix themselves,” - Charlotte Walker - LoveReading UK
228 pages, Paperback
Published April 9, 2021
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January 17, 2024
'probably best book I ever read'
May 7, 2021
Thoroughly enjoyed.
June 8, 2021
So this book took me by surprise. The best way I can describe it is by the tone of it. It gives off a “Perks of Being a Wallflower” vibe.
The author did an amazing job setting not only the tone but the visuals. I pictured everything so clearly in my head. I felt the emotions on the pages and the need to know what happens next. I wish I could do better in describing the book itself, but this is one of those books where you are just left with the feelings you felt. Almost like you lived it and it’s now a distant memory.
(Also if you’ve ever seen 500 days of Summer-this has that vibe too).
The author did an amazing job setting not only the tone but the visuals. I pictured everything so clearly in my head. I felt the emotions on the pages and the need to know what happens next. I wish I could do better in describing the book itself, but this is one of those books where you are just left with the feelings you felt. Almost like you lived it and it’s now a distant memory.
(Also if you’ve ever seen 500 days of Summer-this has that vibe too).
July 29, 2021
I Escape Through You is a love story told from the point of view of Lucas, who recalls his first experience of falling in love. After meeting in an online game chat, the lonely Lucas quickly begins a turbulent relationship with Megan, a troubled PhD student who can never quite fulfill his expectations and desires.
I found this story to be very thoughtful, fascinating, and beautifully written. It is the type of novel that causes you to stop and remember your own past relationships, while perhaps even considering the importance of understanding expectation versus reality. You will still be reflecting on this story long after you have finished reading it.
I found this story to be very thoughtful, fascinating, and beautifully written. It is the type of novel that causes you to stop and remember your own past relationships, while perhaps even considering the importance of understanding expectation versus reality. You will still be reflecting on this story long after you have finished reading it.
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