Book description
Soho 1925
Two young men meet - for one of them this is love at first sight,
for the other only lust and guilt…
In 1925 Paul Harris returns to England from self-imposed exile in
Tangiers for an exhibition of his paintings. He leaves behind
Patrick, the man he has loved since they met in the trenches in 1918,
needing to discover if he has the strength to live without him and
wanting to explore the kind of life he might have lived had it not
been for the war. In Bohemian Soho, Paul meets Edmund whose
passionate love changes Paul's idea of himself. With Edmund, Paul
begins to believe that he may have another life to live, free of the
guilt and regrets of the past. But the past is not so easy to escape,
and when Patrick follows Paul to London a decision must be made that
will affect all their lives.
Marion Husband is a compassionate and compelling writer exploring
the complexities of human nature with great empathy. Her debut novel
The Boy I Love, the first in the three part
The Boy I Love Trilogy, won the Andrea Badenoch Fiction Award
and The Blackwell Prize. Her other novels include The Good
Father and Say You Love Me. She is married with two
grown-up children and teaches creative writing.
