Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld.[...]
Drawing on a brilliant literary tradition of madness, incarceration and escape, Jonathan Kemp delivers the triumphant coming of age of a woman in her sixties. When 64-year-old Grace Wellbeck thinks she sees the ghost of her first husband, she fears for her sanity and worries that she's having anoth[...]
Crafted around twenty-six extraordinary erotic encounters, this highly charged work is a powerful meditation on the pursuit of pleasure.[...]
"London itself is as powerful a presence here as the three gay men whose lives it absorbs." --"The Times Literary Supplement""Vivid and visceral, "London Triptych" cuts deep to reveal the hidden layers of a secret history." --Jake Arnott, author of "The Long Firm"Rent boys, aristocrats, artists, and[...]