Description Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself – the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich’s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will’s own privileged existence. Customers Also Liked Related products The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador Collection) Reviews