Two Lovers

Ralf Webb’s debut novel is a finely wrought interrogation of bisexuality, social class, art-making and obsession – I read it compulsively – Jessica Andrews, author of MILK TEETH
Two Lovers is an utterly assured debut, a novel so beautifully observed and written with such exquisite prose it feels like it was lifted from another time. Webb excels at capturing the liminal space between youth and adulthood. His characters totter elegantly between living loudly and hiding from the demands of life. A novel I will return to if I ever need a perfect reminder of what it feels like to be young. – Jan Carson, author of FEW AND FAR BETWEEN
Erotic and elegiac, Two Lovers is the exquisite pain of being young and unformed rendered in a cascade of gorgeous language. A plangent poem to first love. Mesmerising. – Francesca Reece, author of GLASS HOUSES
Two Lovers is a book about the need to unsteady oneself that somehow left me saner after reading. Webb’s elegant prose makes a beautiful kind of sense of all the chaos and contradiction involved in trying to live. His young protagonist, though fired by the certainty of desire, moves between cities, lovers and thoughts with an infectious kind of doubt. The result is a wry, but never cynical, study of human minds as they circle each other’s bodies. – Amber Husain, author of TELL ME HOW YOU EAT
Elegant, timeless, suffused with desire – Sarah Thomas, author of QUEEN K

Ralf Webb is the author of poetry collections Rotten Days in Late Summer, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Highway Cottage, and the non-fiction book Strange Relations, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

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