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From the classroom to the trenches, a gay love story for the ages
Alice Winn’s heartrending debut novel In Memoriam, set during the First World War, brings history wrenchingly to life. Read my full Telegraph review here
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Tagged alice winn, boarding school, book, first world war, flanders, gay, in memoriam, lgbtq, love, novel, poetry, queer, review, romance, telegraph, the front, trenches, world war 1
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover, BBC One
The major controversy of this revisionist BBC adaptation is not D. H. Lawrence’s naughty bits, but the lack of them. Gone are the four-letter words and personified genitals – just one half-embarrassed mention of “John Thomas” – while graphic sexual … Continue reading
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