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A Room Above a Shop


French Title : Une chambre au-dessus d’un magasin
Author :
Shapland, Anthony

anglais
Number of Pages : 160
Dimensions : 128 x 197 x 12 (mm)
Cover : souple
Theme : LGBTQI+,Romance,queer,sida,consentement
Publisher :
Granta Books

Publication Date : 2026-03
Price (Incl. Tax) :
13,95 €
Ref. :9781803511627

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Description

Lorsque deux hommes discrets nouent des liens timides, aucun des deux ne sait où cela les mènera. M a hérité de la quincaillerie familiale et B, de onze ans son cadet, ne voit aucun avenir dans sa ville natale. Mais lorsque M lui propose un emploi et un logement, il accepte. Tandis qu'ils travaillent côte à côte à la boutique, ils commencent aussi une vie commune dans leur unique chambre à l'étage – une vie qu'ils n'auraient jamais imaginée et qui risque de tout faire basculer si leur image publique venait à se dégrader. Se déroulant dans le sud du Pays de Galles, sur fond de Section 28, de débat sur l'âge du consentement et de crise du VIH/SIDA, ce récit d'amour tendre et poignant est une première œuvre marquante.

Image for A Room Above a Shop Click to enlarge A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland (Author) Format:Paperback / softback 160 pages Publisher:Granta Books Imprint:Granta Books ISBN:9781803511627 Published:26 Mar 2026 Classifications:Of specific Gay interest, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features Weight:118g Dimensions:128 x 197 x 12 (mm) Pub. Country:United Kingdom For sale in: France, United Kingdom, AU, Ireland, Germany, (See full list) Other Formats Hardback from 11,86 € Description When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared room above - the kind of life they never imagined possible and that risks everything if their public performance were to slip. Unfolding in South Wales against the backdrop of Section 28, the age of consent debate and the HIV and AIDS crisis, this is a tender and resonant love story, and a powerful debut.