Neon Roses: The joyfully queer, uplifting and sexy read of the summer
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- Synopsis
- A coming-of-age novel about two women falling in love during the culturally and politically turbulent 1980s.It's 1984 in The Valleys, South Wales, and Eluned Hughes is stuck. The miners' strikes are ravaging her family and community, and her boyfriend of six years, Lloyd, is starting to bring up marriage more than she would like. She spends her days selling shoes, listening to Madonna, and trying to hold it all together. Meanwhile, Eluned's clever and precocious little sister, Mabli, thinks she knows it all. Mabli takes her older, moneyed, Thatcherite, policeman boyfriend, Graham, as the ticket out of her working class reality.So, Eluned is left contemplating her own destiny - staying at home with a husband and a couple of kids - until one day she hears about a fundraising group called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Apparently they're from London, they've been raising money for the miners in her town, and they're coming to visit. She's curious, for sure. And even more so when she lays eyes on June for the first time. She has short hair, she wears leather jackets, she's moody - and Eluned's life is turned upside down.NEON ROSES takes us on a ride of all the glorious sights and sounds of the 1980s, as Eluned attempts to carve her identity out of the protests, Pride parades, nightclubs and parties of Cardiff, London and Manchester. But this is also a story about two sisters, and the different paths they take outside of where they come from. What is the reality of reconciling family with queerness? What does a family even look like? What choice should Eluned make when her little sister rings her up out of the blue one night, confessing the truth about her relationship with Graham?(P) 2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781399801959
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781399801928
- Publisher:
- John Murray Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/25/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Rachel Dawson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Ffion Aynsley
- Categories:
- Romance, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.