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The story follows Laurie Odell, a young soldier wounded at Dunkirk, as he recovers in a military hospital. There, he finds himself torn between two very different men: Andrew, a younger, idealistic conscientious objector, and Ralph Lanyon, a cynical naval officer from Laurie's past. or Apple Books : Purchase a permanent digital
: Written while the UK still criminalized homosexuality, Renault chose to set the book in the 1940s rather than her usual ancient Greece, providing a rare, authentic glimpse into the wartime queer experience. There, he finds himself torn between two very
Publishing a sympathetic, highly sophisticated novel about homosexual men in 1953 British society was an act of immense bravery. At the time, the British government was actively prosecuting gay men, a crackdown that famously caught historical figures like Alan Turing.