{"product_id":"9781803511603","title":"A Room Above a Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Shapland, Anthony \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 13\/03\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 160 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781803511603,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the most beautiful and original gay novels I have a read in a long time'NEIL BLACKMOREAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared room above - the kind of life they never imagined possible and that risks everything if their public performance were to slip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding in South Wales against the backdrop of Section 28, the age of consent debate and the HIV and AIDS crisis, this is a tender and resonant love story, and a powerful debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54992302211445,"sku":"9781803511603","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781803511603_e6456697-7b11-4bec-b409-163f3f402169.jpg?v=1759659970","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781803511603","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}