Book review: Impressive debut explores forbidden lust and love in Victorian-era England

It opens with an explicit four-page-long description of a middle-aged man in a crush of bodies on a rush hour London tube train being sexually aroused by the presence of the man he is pressed up against. 
Book review: Impressive debut explores forbidden lust and love in Victorian-era England

Tom Crewe’s impressive first novel explores unconventional sexual relationships in repressive Victorian London. Picture: Jon Tonks, London Review of Books

Sat, 18 Feb, 2023 - 10:00
Alannah Hopkin

  • The New Life
  • Tom Crewe
  • Penguin Random House/Vintage, €17.99

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