A gay coming of age novel set in London

21st June 2018

Disbanded Kingdom by Polis Loizou – a gay coming of age novel set in London.

22 year old Oscar is drifting. He is gay, but not happy in the gay scene. He lives with his foster mother, successful novelist Charlotte Fontaine, in Kensington. Kensington is a far cry from some of the rougher parts of London that Oscar frequents. He struggles with his sexuality and with his relationship with Charlotte – is he toy boy or son?

All this changes when he meets Tim, Charlotte’s literary agent and latest lover. He is infatuated – and looks for, and imagines, that his infatuation is reciprocated. He and Tim are very different and have very different outlooks on life – they debate issues of politics and religion as they smoke on the balcony of Charlotte’s flat. Oscar’s life is changed… he comes of age.

In TripFiction terms, London comes through loud and clear in the story. From Kensington to Soho to Camden Town. Each area is observed and painted with precision.

Disbanded Kingdom is Polis Loizou’s first published book. He is primarily a playwright and is co-founder of London’s Off-Off-Off Broadway Company. His short stories have been featured in the Stockholm Review of Literature and his work appears frequently in Litro Magazine – one of the UK’s premier publishers of new short fiction. He is undoubtedly a very talented and sensitive writer, who develops his characters well. I look forward to reading more of his work in the future.

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