ONE TO WATCH Frank Goosen So viel Zeit (So Much Time) Eichborn, August 2007, 350 pp ISBN: 978-3-8218-0920-5 Friendship, music and nostalgia for the early 1980s are the heart of this novel, with echoes of Nick Hornby and Tony Parsons (including the epigraph). Its plot-line is the attempt of five forty-something men to form a rock band to play at their twenty-fiveyear school reunion, their relationship to each other, their love affairs, hang-ups, crises and – in one case – tragedy. Their band, Mountain of Thunder, covers a variety of rock songs of the time. Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath – here they all are again, and in the end the performance, and the warm-up gigs that precede it, have a therapeutic influence on them all. Their fantasies may be of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, but their lives, in fact, are more familiarly humdrum. A highly enjoyable, character-driven read. Wonderful, the power of music!