Glitterland

- Blurb -

From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a deeply emotional romance about heartbreak, hope, and learning to love against all the odds. Once the golden boy of the English literary scene, now a clinically depressed writer of pulp crime fiction, Ash Winters has given up on hope, happiness, and - most of all - himself. He lives his life between the cycles of his illness, haunted by the ghosts of other people' s expectations. Then a chance encounter throws him into the path of Essex-born Darian Taylor. Flashy and loud, radiant and full of life, Darian couldn' t be more different. . . and yet he makes Ash laugh, reminding him of what it' s like to step beyond the boundaries of his anxiety. But Ash has been living in his own shadow for so long that he can no longer see a way out. Can a man who doesn' t trust himself ever trust in happiness? And how can someone who doesn' t believe in happiness ever fight for his own? In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. In the past, I am brilliant and I am happy and my every tomorrow is madness. In the past, I am soaring, and falling, and breaking, and lost. And now, there is only this.