Handsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt

Literature & Fiction

Ronan, Frank

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

A novel by the author of "Dixie Chicken", "A Picnic in Eden", "Handsome Men are Slightly Sunburnt" and the award-winning "The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton".

Lovely

Sceptre

Born on a Devon commune in the sixties to a teenage single mother, Coorg is declared to be the new Merlin by the group (until he is supplanted by Marc Bolan) and grows up on peace, love and brown rice - until Coorg's grandparents abduct him when he is 6, taking him back to Ireland where he is renamed Joseph and introduced to Mass, sweets, and the back of his grandmother's hand. Joe grows up in a small seaside town trying hard to fit into a dysfunctional family and a Church that doesn't seem to reward his efforts, but when he decides to be bad he finds sinning gets him no further. Then his feckless mother reappears, on the trail of the Holy Grail and (when Marc Bolan dies) after Joe as the messiah who will save the world. On the cusp of adulthood, his head churning with Catholicism, mysticism as well as the more usual teenage concerns, Joe finally cracks.

Home

Hodder&Stoughton

<p>Was it any advantage to be loved by a man? This story tells of the loves of Evelyn Cotton, from the 1950s through to the 1970s, and their faults, though the man who chronicles her story loved her more than any of the others put together. This is the author's first novel.</p>

THE MEN WHO LOVED EVELYN COTTO

British & Irish

Pantheon

A Picnic in Eden.: Correspondence, 1915-1963

Literary

Bloomsbury UK

Cosmic Dancer.

Eichborn

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