THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR

A dazzling work of fiction which explores the relationships between the generations, both within and outside families, and the unorthodox alliances made by gay men and women over a period of 70 years.

Beginning in Oxford during the first year of the war and moving through a wide sweep of modern English life, taking in the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2010s, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel follows two main characters, Evert Dax and Johnny Sparsholt, separated by 30 years in age, but with a hidden connection in the past. A dazzling work of fiction which explores the relationships between the generations, both within and outside families, and the unorthodox alliances made by gay men and women over a period of 70 years.

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of five internationally acclaimed novels,The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell,The Line of Beauty which won the Booker Prize in 2004,and most recently, The Stranger's Childwhich was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.