A gorgeous, sweeping novel about queerness, overcoming loss and choosing your own family.
"Everything you want from a novel . . . funny, sexy, and moving . . . full of queer joy." Claire Lynch, author of small: on motherhoods
'Incredible . . . a beautiful book full of emotion that will stay with me for a long time.' Nina Pottell, Books Editor at Prima
Mae and Ari are not your average power couple.
When they meet outside a Leeds gay club in their final year of university, their connection is magnetic. Whilst Mae, stubborn and no stranger to breaking hearts, needs Ari's bright light to guide her out of her self-centred ways; Ari, vibrant, charming and reeling in the aftermath of a scandal in New York, clings to Mae as his grounding anchor.
As the years sweep by, the two traverse the tumult of life: hotshot jobs and toxic partners, the fallout of long-hidden secrets and the heavy weight of grief. If they can hold onto one another in the face of the relentless past and the inevitable future, they might discover how to build something beautiful out of their expansive, boundary-breaking love.
Spanning ten years of an extraordinary friendship, This Love is an epic tale of finding your soulmate and creating a family out of expansive, boundary-breaking love.
