The New Life - Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023

''A very fine new writer'' Kate Atkinson ''Electrifying'' Anne Enright ______________ Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis''s wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Yet they share a vision of a better world, one that will expand possibilities for men and women everywhere. Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger. How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living? ''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 Toibin

Product details

• Authors: Tom Crewe, Crewe Tom
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2023
• EAN: 9781784744700
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-470-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Erotica / Historical, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, erotic fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Of specific Gay interest, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, Gay Studies (Gay Men), Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, FICTION / Erotica / LGBTQ+ / Gay