The Boy I Love The Boy I Love Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Marion Husband Ben Elliot Audible Studios Books
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The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father's home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Through Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam.
Pat Morgan who was a sergeant in Paul's platoon, runs a butcher's shop in town and cares for his twin brother, Mick who lost both legs in the war. Pat yearns for the closeness he experienced with Paul in the trenches. Set in a time when homosexuality was 'the love that dare not speak its name' the story develops against the backdrop of the strict moral code of the period. Paul has to decide where his loyalty and his heart lies as the entire characters search hungrily for the love and security denied them during the war.
The Boy I Love The Boy I Love Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Marion Husband Ben Elliot Audible Studios Books
The Boy I Love by Marion Husband is an exceptionally good novel. The main character, Paul Harris, is a deeply conflicted young man back just returned from the trenches of WWI, just barely hanging on to his sanity. Out of a sense of duty he marries his dead brother's pregnant girlfriend, hoping that despite his sexual desire for other men he can still be a good husband and father. His good intentions come to naught, however, as he soon falls in love with a fellow ex-soldier, who wants desperately to provide the refuge that Paul so clearly needs.The the novel is full of well rounded characters, a distinct sense of place and time, and a depth of feeling few novels in this genre attain. There is also a grittiness and realism to it that is admirable. And the brutality of war overhangs everything.
I have already begun the 2nd novel in the trilogy, All the Beauty of the Sun (The Boy I Love Trilogy, #2) by Marion Husband, and am enjoying it immensely. I highly recommend that readers check out the writing of Marion Husband. I know you won't be disappointed.
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The Boy I Love The Boy I Love Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Marion Husband Ben Elliot Audible Studios Books Reviews
Wonderful, compelling reading.
Marion Husband is a wonderful author. She engages the reader with masterful storytelling. No element of good writing is left out.
This was a very well written story on a very difficult subject. It really took you into the feelings of the time towards homosexuality and also how women were raised to think in this era as well as the differences between the working class and the more well to do as well as the horrors of the first world war. There were parts of it which seemed somewhat unlikely but overall it was a very good story which kept me interested through the entire book.
This book was amazing. I read a lot of historical fiction, and it's rare to come across a stunner like this one. Especially if you are looking for something that involves gay characters. I'm trying to pinpoint what I loved about this book - I think the meaty plot and wonderful characterizations really did it for me. It was incredibly compelling, and I instantly went out and purchased books two and three, so don't hesitate to pick this one up.
Set among working-class people in the English Midlands in the wake of WW#1 there is only one woman in this love quadrangle. Paul, blinded in one eye left medical school to go to war. After returning he marries his dead brother Robbie’s betrothed pregnant with his brother’s child and daughter of the local Anglican Priest. Child of the town doctor whose wife died giving him birth Paul has had a life-long closeted relationship with Adam and is being stalked by the local butcher Phil who returned from war to take over the family business after his parents died in a car accident. Phil has an identical twin brother Mick invalided to a wheel chair by the war whom he cares for and a counter-girl Hetty who has designs on him. Who knew so much intrigue lay under the surface of sleepy little town?
Call the above spoilers or necessary background it is the execution that makes this book worth reading. If good writers could bottle the formula that makes for good writing and dialogue they’d make a fortune. Not only does the book engage the reader from the opening pages but the editing is excellent as well. The free preview is far more generous than most so try it and you’ll be hooked as well especially at the price. Alas, the story drags somewhat in the middle. This is book one of a trilogy. The Boy I Love is a song one of the men in the trenches sang.
If not for the extensive reading I did in the past few years about the WWI was poets and their close relationship with each other, sometime bordering and merging into love, I would have probably considered this as only a good piece of fiction. But I do know about Siegfried Sassoon, and his love for Wilfred Owen, tragically ended with Owen's death in 1918; his close relationship with Robert Graves, maybe more friendship then love; and his second attempt at happiness Stephen Tennant, that maybe pushed him to marry Hester Gatty and finally having a family, like he had always desired.
I can see the Paul of The Boy I love in Siegfried Sassoon, like probably I can see Adam in Robert Graves, and why not Patrick in Wilfred Owen (with a different ending); there is also Margot in Hester Gatty. Of course the inter-relationships are different, like different are their outcomes. And truth be told, I don't like so much Paul, there is who sees courage in his decisions, but the only thing I can see is the broken hearts he is leaving behind. Already from the beginning, when he is describing the intense desire he has to be with Adam, and his desire is genuine, I can see that he is already detaching himself from his real life, to build a fake one. On this regard, Patrick is maybe less refined than Paul, but he is more sincere and open in his approaches.
It's true that all these men, even Adam, were completely and tragically changed by the war, and it's also true that many of them didn't have a choice; it was probably easier for the Stephen Tennant of the time, people from aristocracy, being dubbed as "eccentric", and living as they liked, but for the many Pauls, Adams and Patricks it was not so simple.
Just recently I argued with another reader on what makes a romance; the other opinion was that to be a romance you need to have an uplifting happily ever after; my opinion is that you need to have a love story, and the happily ever after is a bonus, but not a rule. So yes, I consider The Boy I Love a wonderful romance, maybe even comparable to the likes of Maurice, but unlike Maurice, it has not an happily ever after, at least not for Paul. I'm not sure if the author is planning something different for Adam and Patrick, maybe at the time she wrote this novel, she wanted for the reader to build their own finale. Now there are two more books in the series, so it will be interesting to see what is waiting for these men.
I wanted for this novel to have an happily ever after, even if I don't like so much Paul (but more for the output of his decisions that for him as a character), I was enthralled by his story, as I was by Patrick and Adam (Adam is probably my favorite), but I knew it was not in the star; in a way, it could have been worst, in the end, Paul and Patrick are back from war (and many didn't make it), Adam is still alive, but what life is without the total happiness of being able to basking to the sun of your love? It's like living in a perennial shadow, it's not bad, but not even perfection.
The Boy I Love by Marion Husband is an exceptionally good novel. The main character, Paul Harris, is a deeply conflicted young man back just returned from the trenches of WWI, just barely hanging on to his sanity. Out of a sense of duty he marries his dead brother's pregnant girlfriend, hoping that despite his sexual desire for other men he can still be a good husband and father. His good intentions come to naught, however, as he soon falls in love with a fellow ex-soldier, who wants desperately to provide the refuge that Paul so clearly needs.
The the novel is full of well rounded characters, a distinct sense of place and time, and a depth of feeling few novels in this genre attain. There is also a grittiness and realism to it that is admirable. And the brutality of war overhangs everything.
I have already begun the 2nd novel in the trilogy, All the Beauty of the Sun (The Boy I Love Trilogy, #2) by Marion Husband, and am enjoying it immensely. I highly recommend that readers check out the writing of Marion Husband. I know you won't be disappointed.
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