{"product_id":"henry-henry-allen-bratton-9781529931815","title":"Henry Henry by Allen Bratton (Paperback)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*\u003c\/i\u003e2025 Lammy Award Finalist*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'One of the most exciting new novels'\u003c\/b\u003e FINANCIAL TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Very funny... Its deeply felt pages flew by'\u003c\/b\u003e GUARDIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Sexy, compassionate, uncommonly imaginative- I've never read anything quite like it'\u003c\/b\u003e Oisin McKenna, author of \u003ci\u003eEvenings and Weekends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e London, 2014. Hal Lancaster - twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card - is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When a grouse shooting accident - funny in retrospect - makes a romance out of Hal's rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, a life of his own. But his father Henry is an Englishman- he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family's past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Deeply enjoyable'\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Armfield, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Wives Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Thrillingly imaginative'\u003c\/b\u003e Kaliane Bradley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Time\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55069368385879,"sku":"9781529931815","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9781529931815_c959db48-eae6-437e-a596-f47b3ce6fa3d.jpg?v=1789769238","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/henry-henry-allen-bratton-9781529931815","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}