If I Fall Back Down Again: A Punk Rock Memoir

by Raven Taylor

If I Fall Back Down Again continues with the story of Tobias Grave, leader of punk band The Radicals, his wife, Morven Strike-punk rocker and alternative model-and their young son, Reno. Five years have passed since Reno's birth, but after numerous failed attempts to make a success of their marriage, Tobi and Morven finally split. Reno lives with Tobi and his partner, and twenty-three-year-old Morven, now penniless, is forced to travel from Edinburgh to Brighton to see the son she hardly knows. But who really is Reno's father? Is it Tobi, the older father figure, or is it Goldie, Morven's ex-boyfriend, a violent extremist? And to what lengths is Goldie prepared to go to get Morven and Reno back into his life? This is an edgy, gritty story of relationships and modern life. It's a tale of drugs, fights, gigs and kidnapping with some shocking events. Promising young author Raven Taylor has skilfully crafted a page-turning, must-read sequel to If I Fall Back Down.

205 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2015

About the author

Raven Taylor is a British novelist writing character-driven social realism rooted in emotional truth rather than spectacle. Her work explores love, loyalty, masculinity, and inherited trauma, often set around music and subculture, but focused squarely on relationships and moral ambiguity rather than nostalgia.

Her novels examine people who love badly, cling fiercely, and struggle to reconcile who they were with who they are trying to become. She is particularly interested in chosen families, the afterlives of subculture, and the ways grief, guilt, and belonging shape adult identity.

Raven’s writing is uncompromising but compassionate, refusing neat redemption arcs while remaining deeply invested in the humanity of her characters. She lives and works in the North of England.