Jean Refugees & political asylum A passion for glossy magazines

A passion for glossy magazines shines through this effervescent memoir' Sunday Express

'The gift of Patrick Gale is to tell a story with such poise and grace of prose that you are wound deeply around every step of the unfolding tale'

the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin

each striving for a better future in an unequal society

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Jean Refugees & political asylum A passion for glossy magazinesOne afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a secret intimacy, one defined as much by violence as by friendship and desire. As the boys' connection deepens, so too does the risk that surrounds it. Jean son of a single mother, Jewish, on a scholarship, forever an outsider wonders whether the relationship might offer a way