The Boy Made the Difference

The Boy Made the Difference
Matt Bishop
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 280pg
28 Aug 2020 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781838594879
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Rex, a husband and father, makes an unintentional error. Will Rex get away with his terrible, taboo-bustingmistake? This opening premise is the starting gun to a rollicking ride through London of the late 1980s and early1990s, in a literary novel that focuses on human frailty, love, marriage, family bonds, gay sex, betrayal,alcoholism, illness and death. Although aspects of the novel are richly ironic and even comedic, it alsodeals with challenging themes, not least HIV/AIDS. Matt Bishop wrote The Boy Made the Difference because very few (if any) literary novels are set againstthe narrative backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which had a profoundand lasting impact on the gay community. All of the proceeds from the book sales will be donated tohis late mother' s charity - the Bernardine Bishop Appeal (part of CLIC Sargent - a charity that helpschildren, young people and their families who are suffering the effects of cancer).
Born in London in 1962, Matt Bishop has worked in motor racing (principally in Formula 1, but now as a director of W Series, the international motor racing championship for female drivers) for many years, but before that as an award-winning journalist and editor. Bishop ghost-wrote the autobiography of double Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, Emmo: A Racer' s Soul. In the late 1980s he worked as a home support volunteer for the world' s largest HIV/AIDS centre.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781838594879
Published: 28 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Matador
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 280

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