Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem

Now a major motion picture

The winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize

A sizzling and deeply touching love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s London

In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self—on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles over glamorous Ray—ten years older, leather-clad, cool, handsome...