Royals
The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club Pick
1st Edition
Published on 10. June 2021
336 pages
978-1-5266-4581-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club Pick
A Grazia Book of the Year
'Honest, provocative and disarmingly funny' Guardian
'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Dazzling ... I'm incoherent with love for it' MARIAN KEYES
'Elegant, sexy, tender, wild ... A beautiful, beautiful book' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALS
July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe - he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he's amazing.
When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies.
Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It's about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It's about working out who you are and what you want. It's a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.
A Grazia Book of the Year
'Honest, provocative and disarmingly funny' Guardian
'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Dazzling ... I'm incoherent with love for it' MARIAN KEYES
'Elegant, sexy, tender, wild ... A beautiful, beautiful book' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALS
July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe - he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he's amazing.
When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies.
Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It's about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It's about working out who you are and what you want. It's a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-4581-4 (9781526645814)
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06/2021
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut, Untogether.
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