Lie with Me by Philippe Besson

Lie with Me by Philippe BessonA gorgeous coming of age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France. Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen year olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world

and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp

enjoyed by adults and children alike

brought into this world moments ahead of her brother

Mr Gray does not like people

the problems of malaria

and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come

and Romantic Novelist Association prize-winner

Dublin Castle and Temple Bar

battlefields and brothels

are upended one after the other: first

wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks

Each Peach Pear Plum introduces characters from well-known nursery stories