{"product_id":"9780008365905-the-inverts","title":"The Inverts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Get your copy of Crystal Jeans' deliciously funny new novel, ACCIDENTAL DARLINGS, now!*\u003c\/strong\u003e                    \u003cp\u003e‘An absolute *blinder* … so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans’ \u003cstrong\u003eCaroline O’Donoghue, author of \u003cem\u003eScenes of a Graphic Nature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Get your copy of Crystal Jeans' deliciously funny new novel, ACCIDENTAL DARLINGS, now!*\u003c\/strong\u003e                    \u003cp\u003e‘An absolute *blinder* … so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans’ \u003cstrong\u003eCaroline O’Donoghue, author of \u003cem\u003eScenes of a Graphic Nature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘A glorious celebration of queer friendship and all kinds of love. Funny, outrageous, heartbreaking and so much fun’ \u003cstrong\u003eKate Davies, winner of the Polari Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘Hilarious, fresh and sexy, with a tale that takes the reader from Egypt to Hollywood’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘Funny, filthy and phenomenally good’ \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Cain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘Filthy and hilarious, this is a gloriously naughty romp of a read that also has something serious to say about queer love. I didn’t want it to end’ \u003cstrong\u003eS.J. Watson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘Perfect for fans of \u003cem\u003eTipping the Velvet\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGentleman Jack\u003c\/em\u003e… a delicious and diligent piece of fiction that will provide you with enough great comebacks to last a lifetime… This is a delightful book I wish to fling at my friends with affectionate abandon' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDIVA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘By turns raucous and poignant, hilarious and shattering this is a wonder of a story’ \u003cstrong\u003eJess Kidd\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e‘This delicious romp is the sort of thing Nancy Mitford might have written if she’d been gay… wonderfully blithe, witty and moving’ \u003cstrong\u003eRowan Pelling, \u003cem\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss.\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eA terrible, repulsive kiss.\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eBettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong…. and gay. Bart is young, rich, charismatic… and also, definitely, gay. Any doubts are dispelled by, in short order: that ghastly kiss; a torrid encounter for Bettina in the school boiler-rooms; and an eye-opening Parisian visit for Bart.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eSociety will never stand for it. What else can they do but enter into a ‘lavender marriage’ and carry on indulging their true natures in secret? As the ’20s and ’30s whizz past in a haze of cigarettes, champagne and casual sex, Bart and Bettina have no idea that they are hurtling, via Hollywood and Egypt, Paris and London, towards tragedy and bloodshed…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536537756022,"sku":"9780008365905","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26795934.jpg?v=1774289164","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780008365905-the-inverts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}