The New Life

'We must live in the future we hope to make': a magnificent and daring novel of forbidden love and new ways of living set in 1890s London.

Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about forbidden desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England...

After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John has finally found a man who returns his feelings. Meanwhile, Henry is convinced that his new unconventional marriage will bring freedom.

United by a shared vision, they begin work on a revolutionary book arguing for the legalisation of homosexuality.

Before it can be published however, Oscar Wilde is arrested and their daring book threatens to throw them, and all around them, into danger. How high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living?