

WEBSITE DISCLAIMER for Terms Used in This Document charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving’ Colm Tóibín How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living? Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger.

Yet they share a vision of a better world, one that will expand possibilities for men and women everywhere. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership.Īfter a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer.
