
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
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An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love – from a major new talent
They knew each other because their families knew each other- had known each other, for a long time.
An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love – from a major new talent
‘Carnal and precise’ RAVEN LEILANI, author of Luster
London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness.
When a grouse-shooting accident – funny in retrospect – makes a romance out of Hal’s rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, a life of his own. But his father is an Englishman; he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family’s past.
‘Wonderful’ BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late Americans
‘A brilliantly glinting and twisted debut’ SE N HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide
About the Author: Allen Bratton was born in the United States. He holds an MA in English Language and Literatures, having written a thesis on medieval English kingship. He is the winner of the 2021 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest and was longlisted for the 2021 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. Henry Henry is his debut novel.
02 May 2024
Additional information
Format | Hardback |
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Genre | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Readership Level | General (US: Trade) |
ISBN | 9781787334595 |
Publication Date | 02 May 2024 |
Henry Henry: ‘Needs to be read right now’ Brandon Taylor by Allen Bratton ISBN 9781787334595