{"product_id":"9781398547681","title":"My Only Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Hell is round the corner in \u003ci\u003eMy Only Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, its skilfully imagined near-future, far-right Britain all too believable. But what I admire most is the way its grand sweep is studded with small human moments: brilliantly noticed instances of the ways we want and yearn and love' \u003cb\u003eChris Power, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Lonely Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sensational new novel from the highly-acclaimed author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDreamland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e: a once-in-a-lifetime love story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is Elle's job to manage disasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut lately things have started to spin out of control. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt work, the latest catastrophe has been live-streamed to the nation. A shock election sees an extreme-right coalition storm to power. Then, on a night so hot it feels like London's pavements are melting, she meets Ed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElle and Ed are not meant to be drawn to each other. Elle has only ever been attracted to women, and Ed, billed as 'the great gay novelist of our times', is about to release his first book. But something inexplicable sparks between them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan the unexpected attraction they feel last when it presents such a profound challenge to their identity? And as the country fractures and the heat rises, how will they choose between the people they've known themselves to be - and the people they are willing to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth an unforgettable love story and a state-of-the-nation thriller, \u003ci\u003eMy Only Boy\u003c\/i\u003e asks universal questions about desire, complicity, and what happens when your sense of self collapses along with the world around you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Only Rosa Rankin-Gee could write so wonderfully about the imminent implosion of everything we'd ever dreamed of, while two unlikely lovers find joy in a broken world. Golden' \u003cb\u003eJustin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Glorious Dead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Completely original... this book charmed, provoked, and unsettled me in equal measure. Read it'\u003cb\u003e Maggie Millner, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCouplets: A Love Story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e I can't stop thinking about it'\u003cb\u003e Lucy Foley, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hunting Party \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I devoured this book. Rosa Rankin-Gee is a master at creating near future worlds with a simmering political back drop, pierced through with laughs and a love story that feels at once epic and beautiful and also completely universal' \u003cb\u003eKayleigh Llewellyn, Bafta Award-winning creator of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn My Skin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A moving, complex love story set in an all-too-plausible far-right future of intolerance, decline and precarity. Rankin-Gee has a fine ear for the dialogues of London and the humour that makes people fall in love, stay humane and make all the wrong (and right) decisions. Nuanced, alive, anxious, energetic, elegiac and thoughtful.' \u003cb\u003ePaul Holden, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Rosa is hilarious and prescient, an incredible writer who's able to make your heart leap both with anxiety for our collective human future and anticipation for the possibilities of new love' \u003cb\u003eNafkote Tamirat, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Parking Lot Attendant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eMy Only Boy \u003c\/i\u003eis utterly compelling; it is somehow impossible to put down.… No-one else is writing quite like this - urgent, essential and against all odds, hopeful' \u003cb\u003eLaura Kay, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWild Things\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'With crackling prose, Rosa Rankin-Gee has crafted a novel that is both a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism, and a queer love story turned on its head. It will leave you asking: What would you do to save the ones you love? Buckle up for one hell of a ride.'\u003cb\u003e Grace Flahive, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePalm Meridian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Gripping, immersive and exquisitely written, \u003ci\u003eMy Only Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those books that will live with you long after you've turned the final page' \u003cb\u003eIndyana Schneider, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e28 Questions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A terrifyingly poignant yet oddly heart-warming tale for our time. So richly layered I wanted to savour it, but I couldn't help but race greedily through. What a triumph!' \u003cb\u003eNatasha Bell, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Nowhere Place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDreamland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.' \u003cb\u003eBrit Bennett, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities, buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But there's also the novel's prose - its liquid grace and glinting sparkle - and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'She vividly captures the balance between ferocity and vulnerability as the two girls explore their burgeoning desire; one minute they're greedy for each other, the next they're proceeding more gingerly. Theirs is a great first love, blazing bright and furious amid the poverty and the pain, the perfect counterweight that's needed to make the novel sing. Dreamland brings us face-to-face with much of what we're on the threshold of losing; nevertheless, it manages to convince us that its characters have everything still to live for.'  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57201744544117,"sku":"9781398547681","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781398547681.jpg?v=1779088707","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781398547681","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}