# Radical Love by Neil Blackmore (Paperback)

Re-imagines a 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' **SIR IAN MCKELLAN**  
  
'An imaginative, layered, clever story' **_THE TIMES_**  
  
**London, 1809.** By day, minister John Church preaches to a congregation of commonfolk in Southwark. By night, he is drawn to the secretive, alluring world of a molly house on Vere Street. There, ordinary men reinvent themselves as outrageous queens- lads on the make flirt with labourers and princes alike, and John finds himself ordaining marriages between men.  
  
When he meets the unworldly and free-thinking Ned, one of a group of African abolitionists who attend his chapel, John falls in love with Ned's tender nature and discovers how quickly desire can turn to obsession.  
  
**Based on the 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.**  
  
'One of the boldest novelistic explorations of desire I have read in some time' **KEIRAN GODDARD**  
  
'Compellingly real' **_DAILY MAIL_**

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Random House
- **Tags:** All Books, Romance

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