Open, Heaven

Open, Heaven is a striking debut novel from a richly gifted poet and memoirist: an intensely conjured portrayal of the hopeless, all-consuming love of one lonely teenager for another and how it marks him for life . As in Hewitt''s poetry, the beauties of nature erupt throughout, seeming to express the things the two boys cannot voice and the cumulative effect is as bittersweet and elegiac as birdsong>

About the author

Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture’s Road, and a memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Hewitt, Seán Hewitt
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781787335196
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-519-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 222 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Rural communities, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Of specific Gay interest, Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary