The Chest Club: It's 1983. A young man finds camaraderie and love, laughter and pain, mystery and tragedy...as a hospital patient.

It's the long hot summer of 1983. The era of sharp dressing, new wave and mod revival is being replaced by power dressing, new romantics and a fourth television channel. Simon is nearly seventeen years old, a wide eyed lad from rural Essex, who heads to bustling London for chest surgery. Colin Bramble's debut novel details how Simon, the patients and hospital staff get through the days, as the oddities of individuals emerge to create an incident packed hospital stay. The staff are rocked when they fall victim to a thief. Staff nurse Kate has enough on her plate, dealing with unruly patients and colleagues, aside of trying to discover the culprit. Not easy when most have something to hide. Some content may not be suitable for those under the age of 12.