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London book editor Christopher Metcalfe is fifty years old when he returns to his childhood home after his father’s death. Preparing for the burial forces him to revisit an unresolved past— a pivotal relationship he had at fifteen with an older boy at boarding school who promised love but ultimately did not.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Gay Fiction
Authors: William Corlett
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