Italy Down Under

Contrasting today’s blogs with diaries of the past this novel follows two parallel narratives that are 50 years apart and vastly different at least at first appearance. In modern-day London Robert searches for fulfillment in a world of sex drugs designer clothes and hip gay clubs during which he records his experience on his blog. Half a century earlier Michael kept a secret diary in which he chronicled the dangers of negotiating the closet and the laws that could land himself and his friends and lovers in prison. Past and present collide when Robert moves into a new block of flats and discovers that history is alive and kicking on his doorstep [...]