The New Life - Tom Crewe
Category: Novel
Narrator: Freddie Fox
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Romance
A brilliant and captivating debut, in the tradition of Alan Hollinghurst and Colm Tibn, about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London., In this powerful, visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, two men collaborate on a book in defense of homosexuality, then a crimerisking their old lives in the process., In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that what they call inversion, or homosexuality, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage there is a third party: John has a lover, a working class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry. John and Catherine have three grown daughters and a long, settled marriage, over the course of which Catherin
