EAN: 9781529152081

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'Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice he uncovers loyalty and above all love. I relished every page.' SIR IAN MCKELLEN 'One of the boldest novelistic explorations of desire I have read in some time.' KEIRAN GODDARD author of Hourglass 'An imaginative layered clever story that explores male desire in an intolerant time ... Radical Love confirms Neil Blackmore as one of the most original voices in historical fiction today.' THE TIMES Welcome to England 1809. London is a violent intolerant city exhausted by years of war beset by soaring prices and political tensions. By day John Church preaches on the radical possibilities of love to a multicultural working-class congregation in Southwark. But by night he crosses the river to the secret and glamorous world of a gay molly house on Vere Street where ordinary men reinvent themselves as funny flirtatious drag queens and rent boys cavort with labourers and princes alike. There Church becomes the first minister to offer marriages between men at enormous risk. Everything changes when Church meets the unworldly and free-thinking Ned part of a group of African activist abolitionists who attend his chapel. The two bond over their broken childhoods and Church falls obsessively in love with Ned's tender nature. In a fragile colourful secret world under threat Church's love for Ned takes him to the edge of reason. Based on the incredible true story of one of the most important events in queer history Radical Love is a sensuous and prescient story about gender and sexuality and how the most vulnerable survive in dangerous times.

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