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Radical Love

Yazan: Neil Blackmore
Seslendiren: Anthony Howell
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Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by soaring prices and political tensions. By day, John Church preaches on the radical possibilities of love to a multicultural, working-class congregation in Southwark. But by night, he crosses the river to the secret and glamorous world of a gay molly house on Vere Street, where ordinary men reinvent themselves as funny, flirtatious drag queens and rent boys cavort with labourers and princes alike. There, Church becomes the first minister to offer marriages between men, at enormous risk.

Everything changes when Church meets the unworldly and free-thinking Ned, part of a group of African activist abolitionists who attend his chapel. The two bond over their broken childhoods, and Church falls obsessively in love with Ned's tender nature. In a fragile, colourful secret world under threat, Church's love for Ned takes him to the edge of reason.

Based on the incredible true story of one of the most important events in queer history, Radical Love is a sensuous and prescient story about gender and sexuality, and how the most vulnerable survive in dangerous times.

©2023 Neil Blackmore (P)2023 Penguin Audio

 Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Kraliyet Romantizmi LGBTQIA+ İçerik Üreticileri Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Regency Romance İngiltere Komik Kraliyet
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Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love. I relished every page. (SIR IAN MCKELLEN)
Blackmore has taken the historical facts and created an imaginative, layered, clever story that explores male desire in an intolerant time. With wit and aplomb he performed a similar trick in The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, riffing on the gay life of the polymath Francis Bacon. Radical Love confirms Blackmore as being one of the most original voices in historical fiction today. (ANTONIA SENIOR)
I was staggered by this book; one of the boldest novelistic explorations of desire I have read in some time. Frighteningly prescient, it shines a light on the world-making possibilities of erotic transgression and the violence that so often comes in its wake.
Forget Bridgerton. Neil Blackmore's Radical Love give us the people of Regency England and its people as they really were; brutally intolerant, scarred by slavery, marred by oppression and social injustice. Don't look for heroes here - look for life as it's really lived, people as they really are. (ANNIE GARTHWAITE, author of Cecily)
A celebration of the erotic lives of long-dead gay Londoners and a lament for past persecutions, Radical Love is a powerful story of desire flourishing amid danger. (NICK RENNISON)
Radical Love is both a searing portrayal of love and obsession, and breathtaking in its depiction of the brutality and hypocrisy of prejudice, all told in sharp, beautiful prose. An unforgettable book.
Utterly compelling. So beautifully written, so many twists and turns and achingly sad moments where I gasped aloud. I haven't read a novel that's tugged at my heartstrings as much as this since John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies. A must-read ... I'll be thinking about it for a long time to come. (JOHN MARRS)
A page-turner (MARIANKA SWAIN)
Full of urgent questions about individual and collective freedoms, and the writing of history...Compellingly real.
A tale of courage and survival, richly imagined and full of pitch-perfect period detail and sly wit.
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Outstandingly good ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and the narrator is excellent too. Only the production is poor with too much bass to the voice and no respect at all for full stops or pauses.

Outstandingly good ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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This is well written, and very well read. It would be a great novel, but it's actually even better as it's very much based on evidence and facts. it should be widely read, as it delves into the hypocrisy of hypocrisy! The characters were well drawn, and the storyline was fascinating, even up to the last sentences. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Enlightening and fascinating

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This is a very disturbing and thought-provoking book - and superbly narrated. It made me think more deeply about slavery and race, homophobia and the precarious nature of LGBT+ rights, about religious hypocrisy and about truth.

Powerful

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A rare glimpse into the hidden world of London’s queer community in the 17 & 1800s. Story finishes with an unexpected yet subtle plot twist which redefines much of what you think you’ve understood throughout the book.

A fascinating insight into queer history of the past

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Complicated! Does it’s best to include multiple current issues and themes as well as developing rich character development and an incredible narrator

Persuasive narrator

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