My Wasted Days

An eighteen-year-old boy drifts through the long heat of suburban Dublin carrying the quiet weight of depression, heartbreak and the feeling that life is happening somewhere far away from him. When a childhood friend dies by suicide, the fragile routine holding him together begins to crack. As the days blur between therapy sessions, cigarettes stolen from his mother, empty shopping centres, awkward funerals and sleepless nights soundtracked by scratched CDs and late-night television, he finds himself pulled deeper into grief and the uncomfortable truth that he understands his friend's decision more than he wants to admit. Raw, intimate and darkly funny, My Wasted Days is a coming-of-age novel about loneliness, masculinity, memory and the strange stillness that exists before adulthood truly begins. Set against the fading optimism of early 2000s Ireland, Jonathan Gregory captures the ache of growing up when you already feel emotionally left behind.

Pages: 216, Paperback, Independently published