Description: Over the course of a single week, three different travelers visit four different European locations: Amsterdam, the Alps, Rome and Paris. What they discover along the way, about each other and themselves, is as surprising as the speed with which they move from place to place.

Thanks not only to the many delights, artistic and otherwise, of their chosen destinations, but even more so to their enigmatic guide, who seems to know exactly what each of them secretly wants.

Verdict: In what has to be one of the most enjoyable, easy to slip into reads I have had in a long time, If It’s Tuesday: A Novel by author Tony Peake is a book that I can most heartily, and unreservedly recommend to all those in search of a Fall prose that contains veins of magic, expansive European scenes and a defiantly untethered sense of ultimate freedom.

Emboldened with not only a resolute sense of traveling it showcases handfuls of companionship, trust, belief and so much more within our principle characters. Ones that guide us lovingly by the hand through the four European locations of Amsterdam, the Alps, Rome and Paris.

Thus what we have here is a most captivating novel, one chock full of insightful observations, delicious verbal meanderings, sumptuously described landscapes and three characters that you actually wouldn’t mind meeting one day on your own European journeys.

About the Author: Tony Peake is the author of the authorized biography of Derek Jarman (Allison & Busby, 2025) and four novels: A Summer Tide (Abacus, 1993), Son to the Father (Little, Brown, 1995), North Facing (Myriad Editions, 2017) and If It’s Tuesday (Roundfire Books, 2025).

As a prize-winning short story writer and occasional essayist, his work has been widely anthologised and he has also edited a collection of short stories on the theme of Seduction (Serpent’s Tail, 1994).

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