{"product_id":"book-ggty","title":"The New Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eYoung Writer Award, the Betty Trask Prize, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature • Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eos \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003engeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eimes\u003c\/i\u003e (London) • The \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) Novel of the Year • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction, the Polari Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e • Selected for \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Fiction Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating and “remarkable” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) debut that “brims with intelligence and insight” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in Victorian London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage, there is a third party: John has a lover, a working-class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry. John and Catherine have three grown daughters and a long, settled marriage, over the course of which Catherine has tried to accept her husband’s sexuality and her own role in life; Henry and Edith’s marriage is intended to be a revolution in itself, an intellectual partnership that dismantles the traditional understanding of what matrimony means.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eShortly before the book is to be published, Oscar Wilde is arrested. John and Henry must decide whether to go on, risking social ostracism and imprisonment, or to give up the project for their own safety and the safety of the people they love.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA richly detailed, powerful, and visceral queer historical novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, \u003ci\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly asks: “What’s worth jeopardizing in the name of progress?” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors’ Choice).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49346685698352,"sku":"10ggty","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49346685665584,"sku":"BDggty","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/360510-ggty-Square.jpg?v=1734171006","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ggty","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}