Royals
✍ Scribed by Emma Forrest
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club Pick
'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's ' DAVID NICHOLLS
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'Dazzling ... I'm incoherent with love for it' MARIAN KEYES**
'Elegant, sexy, tender, wild ... A beautiful, beautiful book' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALS
July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe – he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he's amazing.
When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies....