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January 1901: The day after Queen Victoria's death, two families visit neighouring graves in a London cemetery. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To their mutual distaste, however, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. And worse...

Preparing to evacuate from an approaching hurricane, Haakon Chitragar stumbles upon the diary of his first love, Michel, who died from AIDS in his arms on a park bench in Paris in November of 1986. Diary in hands, Haakon embarks on a journey back in time, to learn about Michel’s life, and his difficult and painful path to accepting his true self, despite pressure from family, church, and society. Michel: Fallen Angel of Paris is the story of one young man, one of countless victims of a pandemic still claiming lives every day.

‘Vividly imagined’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England’ Daily Mail Queen Victoria is dead. In January 1901, the day after her passing, two very different families visit neighbouring graves in a London cemetery. The traditional...