Small Town Blues

by Les Brookes

'What do I really want? Do I know? Well, I know what I don’t want. I don’t want a life of settled ease with Colin, peppered with a series of casual encounters. I want a lover. A real lover. Someone to bond with on every level …' It's the 1980s in rural Suffolk, and Evan has high expectations when he flees the farm and moves in with Colin, but his dreams and illusions are shattered when, bored with country life, he embarks on a series of disastrous affairs …

309 pages, Paperback

Published February 13, 2021

About the author

Les Brookes was born in Devon, but has spent most of his life in Cambridge. He is the author of Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall (Routledge 2009), and his novel Such Fine Boys is now available as an e-book and in paperback. For more information, plus comments and reviews, please see his website.