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Disbanded Kingdom

Disbanded Kingdom

Author(s): Polis Loizou

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+

Era(s): Current

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Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an emotionally stunted young man who lives in upscale Kensington with his foster mother, novelist Charlotte Fontaine.

But all of this changes when Oscar meets Tim, Charlotte’s thirty-something literary agent with whom he becomes hopelessly infatuated. While he struggles to understand Tim’s politics and his rejection of religion, Oscar’s developing friendship with Tim affects a profound change in the young man, making him want to understand the world and his place in it.

DISBANDED KINGDOM is a brilliantly written 21st Century coming-of-age story, set against the emotive backdrop of the United Kingdom’s breakaway from the European Union and its threatened rupture with Scotland.

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Author: tripfiction

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...

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