Best Days of Your Life is the first in the series ‘Just like damn magnets’. The books bounce around a collection of characters whose lives interact with sometimes devastating outcomes. In this first book we meet want-to-be rock star Darren Hayes who is losing the battle between self-indulgence and the more purposeful life that he believes in so desperately. We meet his younger brother Ben who is falling in love for the first time and seeing the beauty in the world all around him. We meet Ben’s alcoholic teacher Sandy Lyle who is torn between his romantic notion of love in modern society and his life of looking after his mother as she spirals into dementia. We meet Kelly Cartwright, one of Sandy’s pupils; at fifteen she is so desperate for a baby she is willing to try anything. Then there’s her friend Jenny all anorexic and cold, whose will to rid the world of ‘the bitch’ leads her to an unusual friendship with one of the school outcasts young Scotty. And not forgetting Steven Gray who is living in the nightmare of his memories and feelings he can’t face but he knows of a way to make it all better.