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Aubade

It is the beginning of the summer, and Paul has just left school. Estranged from the people around him and unable to communicate with his parents, he feels lonely and unloved. But his life suddenly changes when he meets a young medical student whom he renames Gary. Their relationship develops through the long hot summer, to reach its climax with the approach of autumn.

Kenneth Martin was only sixteen when he wrote Aubade, using his poverty-stricken adolescence as well as people he knew for the book’s central conflict and characters. Given those, one can say that Aubade is the ultimate gay young adult novel.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 158
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780854490974
  • Settings
  • Britain
  • Genres
  • gay, fiction, queer, lgbt
  • Release date
  • 1992