Adam is a delightful sixteen-year-old who does well in school and spends his spare time practicing the cello. Or that's what his parents think. But there is another side to him, which comes to the fore when he falls for a labourer called Sylvain and realises that friendships have the potential to be more than platonic. The results are explosive in this passionate story of illicit romance and teenage angst over one long, hot summer in the French countryside.
Adam was the best selling novel ever published by Gay Men's Press now sadly defunct. Adam was repubished by BIGfib books in 2006 and is available today from all major bookstores and direct from BIGfib.


Selected Press Reviews:

Whilst tramping through the woods near the French village where he has been living for the past year, 16-year-old Adam has a disturbing encounter with Sylvain, a local youth, an ill-educated farm labourer who is somewhere between satyr and faun. Yet, that initial encounter leads to others, and soon a passionate physical relationship ensues. However, matters are complicated when Sean and Michael, two of Adam’s friends from England arrive… Adam is assured, vividly imagined (terrific on food, scenery and sex), and reminiscent of the sensuousness of Colette at her best.
- Peter Burton: Gay Times

Rather unusually for a coming of age saga, Adam deals with the exciting and intense passions of first love and not the angst and hatred more often associated with it. The easygoing and beautifully descriptive language artfully blends cultural intelligence into the relaxed, simple charms of rural France, creating an evocative and highly enjoyable read.
- Stephen Beeny: Rainbow Network

A thoughtful and compassionate novel about the infuriating and painful confusion between love and sex, between romantic idealism and the demands of the real world during adolescence. Tastefully handled and never exploitative, the novel manages to be sympathetic whilst rigorously honest at all times. …A fine and elegantly written work deserving a wide readership regardless of sexual orientation.
- What’s On UK

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