The New Life

Name: The New Life
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781529919714
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By Tom Crewe

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“We must live in the future we hope to make” - a magnificent and daring novel of forbidden love and new ways of living set in 1890s London. Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about forbidden desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England... Beautifully... Read More

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The New Life

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“We must live in the future we hope to make” - a magnificent and daring novel of forbidden love and new ways of living set in 1890s London.

Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about forbidden desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England...

Beautifully written - Graham Norton
Subtle, sexy and beautifully crafted - Sarah Waters
Lavishly imagined - Sunday Times

After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John has finally found a man who returns his feelings. Meanwhile, Henry is convinced that his new unconventional marriage will bring freedom.

United by a shared vision, they begin work on a revolutionary book arguing for the legalisation of homosexuality.

Before it can be published however, Oscar Wilde is arrested, and their daring book threatens to throw them, and all around them, into danger. How high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living?

A very fine new writer - Kate Atkinson
I loved this book - Zadie Smith
Some of the best writing on desire I've read - Douglas Stuart
Extraordinary - Jonathan Bailey
Filled with nuance and tenderness... charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving - Colm Tóibín

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529919714

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 January 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 266g

Pages: 400

Collections

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About the Author

TOM CREWE was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life is his first novel. Crewe says- 'This is the book I knew I wanted to write long before I actually wrote it. I hope it reveals to readers an unfamiliar Victorian England that will surprise and provoke, inhabited by a generation in the process of discovering the nature and limits of personal freedom, struggling to create a better world as the twentieth century comes into view.'