Booker Prize-winning author provides a gripping and thought-provoking story
Explores race, class, theatre, and sexuality for a rich, multifaceted narrative
Dual timelines offer insight into the lives of two characters across half a century
Hardcover format ensures durability and a premium reading experience
Summarized by Shop
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the fine