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>

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An achingly beautiful story of first love in the English countryside . . . Lyrical, atmospheric and transporting Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2025*

Product details

• Authors: Sean Hewitt, Seán Hewitt
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781787335202
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-520-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 12 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, Of specific Gay interest, Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Rural communities / rural life