by Washington Washington
Jude Southerland Kessler, author of her self-published novel Shoulda Been There: A Novel on the Life of John Winston Lennon, will be at Wolfgang Books this Sunday, September 27th @ 2 pm to discuss and sign copies of her book. Jude is an award-winning speaker, and you don’t want to miss her Beatles presentation.
About the Book: Literally hundreds of non-fiction books have been written about The Beatles and about the man who formed The Beatles, John Lennon. And quite a few fictional books about Lennon have been created to amuse fans. But Jude Southerland Kessler’s Shoulda been there is the first book ever to tell the Lennon saga with carefully researched footnotes and detailed, informational endnotes, while using a fiction format to keep the reader turning the page. Researched for over 20 years with 7 trips to Liverpool and countless interviews with John Lennon’s friends, early band members, first manager, and club d.j.’s, Shoulda been there traces Lennon’s life from 1940 to December 1961 (when The Beatles signed with Brian Epstein). But it is not just a story about the birth of a band. It is the tale of a lost child whose parents, for one reason or another, pushed him aside for other pursuits. It is the story of all children for whom someone “shoulda been there.”
