Gate-Crashers
by Dave SpencePublish: Nov 02, 2025Series: Gate-CrashersNew Adult Romance Literary Fiction HumorBook Overview
Teenage rebellion, first love and one wild Christmas party. Who needs an invitation?It’s Christmas 1984 in Manchester and seventeen‑year‑old Nick Hopper has devastating news on his mind.
Rather than reveal his tragedy to school mates in their gloomy old pub, Nick seeks a change of heart and goes to a trendy hotspot where life gets in the way of death when a beautiful girl writes on the back of his hand urging him to seize the day and choose life!
Along with his carefree best friend Heff, Nick embarks on the greatest night of his life, gate‑crashing a glamorous house party to pursue the girl of his dreams, Jasmine.
Welcomed into the in-crowd’s heady ‘sex, drugs & pop music’ party world, Nick is forced to face his demons and discover who his real friends are when, to win Jasmine’s heart he unwittingly throws the wildest New Year’s Eve house party, ever!
‘Reckless. Hilarious. Heartbreaking.’ The chaos of adolescence collides with grief, friendship and first love… a breathtaking, heart-thumping ride through the beautiful mess of learning to live when everything feels lost.
Gate-Crashers is a raw, funny, and nostalgic British coming-of-age romcom novel.
Perfect read for ‘throwback with heart’ fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls, John Hughes and The Inbetweeners - with an eighties mixtape side.
