Hide - Tapa dura

Tender, restrained, Hide is the freshly imagined story of a gay male couple who decide to give up the world -friends, family, career - in order to live out their forbidden love in the decades before gay liberation. This is a great love story (Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story)

Unconventional and entirely convincing . It's about the way lives and relationships are formed and deformed, sometimes in extreme ways, by repression and the terror of exposure. It's part love story, part horror show . The book's most convincing scenes offer a very dark vision: like much else in human life, they argue, marriage is hell (Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You)

Graceful and understated (New York Times Book Review)

Heartbreaking, but also funny . Hide is dark and deep - almost the proverbial assured debut. I finished it in tears, impatient to see the development of such a talented writer **** (Sofia Laing, Daily Telegraph)

Past and present intercut in this tender, exquisitely observed love story that demonstrates the sacrifices made in the name of commitment (Fanny Blake, Daily Mail)

One of the best debut novels we've had the pleasure to read this year . A profoundly compassionate book about how we administer to those we love, the tender acrimony of intimacy and facing loss in a world dominated by threat. The story is understated, poignant, beautifully observed and lingers with you long after you've reluctantly read the final page (Attitude)

A deliberately paced, poignant story of two men in love against all the odds . A remarkable novel (Independent)

An extraordinary, subtle, unsettling book. It's a daring, searching, powerful piece of work. He never puts a foot wrong. Those two men, their histories, their difference and the passion that held them loom off the page . I admired the relentless power of this writing ... Ferocious, unsentimental and masterful (Patricia Duncker, author of Hallucinating Foucault)

A tough, thoughtful story beautifully told (Eithne Farry, Sunday Express)

A masterful novel. Every page aches with life (Gail Godwin, author of The Good Husband)