RORY'S BOYS
Alan Clark
Inheriting his grandmother's crumbling mansion, Rory Blaine creates Britain's first retirement home for gay men. Thirty years earlier, the teenage Rory had been exiled from the house, the only home he'd ever known, when his sexuality was discovered. Now in his forties, beneath his tough carefree hedonistic exterior he remains rootless and lonely. The prospective residents, Rory's 'boys', are an eclectic bunch, united only by a longing to grow old in a sympathetic haven. But the project becomes threatened, not only when the house is “outed' by the tabloids but by Rory's complex and shifting relationships with his young partner Faisal, with Vic d'Orsay, an elderly singing star who has funded the restoration and, above all, by the carefully constructed character Rory has built around himself. Then, suddenly, there is a woman in his life...
Perceptive and moving, Rory's Boys is about one man's struggle to accept who he is and about the need most of us have to find some sort of family.
“Funny, touching, tender, true... wonderfully rich and wry” – Gyles Brendreth
“A luxurious retirement home for well-heeled gay men is a wonderful conceit, full of high comedy, bathos and pathos. The outré Rory's Boys have more than a touch of E. F. Benson and Patrick Dennis about them” – Peter Burton
250 pages, paperback
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