EAN: 9781529919714

THE NEW LIFE - TOM CREWE KARTONIERT (TB)

Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award *Shortlist  Debut Fiction  2023 Nero
Book Awards * The Sunday Times Novel of the Year * Shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize
for Historical Fiction    London  1894 . John and Henry have a vision for a new way of life.
But as the Oscar Wilde trial ignites public outcry  everything they long for could be under
threat.    'Beautifully written' Graham Norton 'Subtle  sexy and beautifully crafted' Sarah
Waters 'Lavishly imagined' Sunday Times   ______________   After a lifetime spent navigating
his desires  John has finally found a man who returns his feelings. Meanwhile  Henry is
convinced that his new unconventional marriage will bring freedom.  United by a shared vision 
they begin work on a revolutionary book arguing for the legalisation of homosexuality.  Before
it can be published however  Oscar Wilde is arrested and their daring book threatens to throw
them  and all around them  into danger. How high a price are they willing to pay for a new way
of living?  ______________    'A very fine new writer' Kate Atkinson 'I loved this book' Zadie
Smith 'Some of the best writing on desire I've read' Douglas Stuart 'A fascinating story  so
confidently told  with thoroughly real characters and agonising moral compromises. Brilliant!'
Clare Chambers 'Filled with nuance and tenderness . . . charting the lives of men and women who
inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving' Colm Tóibín

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