Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2022
Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane.
Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement,from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor's living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic,they lead us through decades of change to discover hope in the strangest of places.
Publisher: InkandescentISBN: 9781912620128
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"Vivid characters,a fascinating subject and an expertly evoked setting. Excellent'"- Daily Mail; "Bartlett delights in taking that which was once hidden and making it clear for all to see." - Independent; "This book and its enchanting characters had me under their spell. I was bewitched." - Sheila Hancock; "Mysterious,tender and utterly compelling." - S.J. Watson "One of England's finest writers" - Edmund White
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