EAN: 9781529152081

RADICAL LOVE - NEIL BLACKMORE KARTONIERT (TB)

'Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under
the pain of their betrayal and injustice  he uncovers loyalty and above all  love. I relished
every page.' SIR IAN MCKELLEN 'One of the boldest novelistic explorations of desire I have read
in some time.' KEIRAN GODDARD  author of Hourglass 'An imaginative  layered  clever story that
explores male desire in an intolerant time ... Radical Love confirms Neil Blackmore as one of
the most original voices in historical fiction today.' THE TIMES Welcome to England  1809.
London is a violent  intolerant city  exhausted by years of war  beset by soaring prices and
political tensions. By day  John Church preaches on the radical possibilities of love to a
multicultural  working-class congregation in Southwark. But by night  he crosses the river to
the secret and glamorous world of a gay molly house on Vere Street  where ordinary men reinvent
themselves as funny  flirtatious drag queens and rent boys cavort with labourers and princes
alike. There  Church becomes the first minister to offer marriages between men  at enormous
risk. Everything changes when Church meets the unworldly and free-thinking Ned  part of a group
of African activist abolitionists who attend his chapel. The two bond over their broken
childhoods  and Church falls obsessively in love with Ned's tender nature. In a fragile 
colourful secret world under threat  Church's love for Ned takes him to the edge of reason.
Based on the incredible true story of one of the most important events in queer history 
Radical Love is a sensuous and prescient story about gender and sexuality  and how the most
vulnerable survive in dangerous times.

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