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Jan 3, 2023 · A richly detailed, powerful, and visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, The New Life brilliantly asks: “What’s worth jeopardizing in the name of progress?” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice).
Jan 3, 2023 · When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Yet they share a vision of a better world, one that will expand possibilities for men and women everywhere.
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- Tom Crewe
The New Life is the 2023 debut novel of British writer Tom Crewe. It is a work of historical fiction set in 1890s London and tells the story of two men collaborating on a study favouring civil rights for what were then called "sexual inverts" and now as the gay community.
Jan 3, 2023 · In his debut novel, “The New Life,” Tom Crewe reimagines the lives of two pioneers who studied, and supported, homosexuality in 19th-century England.
- Peter Kispert
A richly detailed, powerful, and visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, The New Life brilliantly asks: “What’s worth jeopardizing in the name of progress?” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice).
- Tom Crewe
- January 16, 2024
- Paperback
Jan 3, 2023 · THE NEW LIFE. by Tom Crewe ‧RELEASE DATE: Jan. 3, 2023. A smart, sensual debut. bookshelf. shop now. Two Englishmen dare to challenge Victorian-era homophobia. In 1894, John Addington, a well-off married man with three daughters, can no longer deny his attraction to men.
As a new century hovers on the horizon, brimming with possibilities of a new and evolved way of life, two men collaborate on a bold but dangerous project: to write a scientific book that intends to challenge the laws that criminalize homosexuality.
- Tom Crewe
