To yearn is to feel the pain and pleasure of being alive all at once. It is one of the great rites of passage of youth wanting someone, wanting to be them, wanting to be wanted. It happens in flashes, [...] in great love stories that alter our basic narratives.
Taylor's masterful look at bad timing and indecision is at once devastating and cosy, as it underlines the subtle intimacy of understated affection. Set in England in the interwar years and post-1945 peacetime, the novel traces the love and lives of Harriet and Vesey.
Endless Love is a novel so aglow with passion it seems only natural that it opens with its protagonist, David, setting fire to his first love Jade's house. [...] The melodrama of the novel would read as false for any other topic, but as the ultimate tale of young yearning, it feels utterly real.
Couplets traces its protagonist's experience of finding a new life in queerness and the hurt that comes from wanting someone to be in your thrall, showing relationships that are modern, fluid, brutal and beautiful.
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