MY ONLY BOY: Rosa Rankin-Gee in conversation with Octavia Bright

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authors Rosa Rankin-Gee and Octavia Bright discuss Rosa's new novel My Only Boy
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Rosa Rankin Gee in conversation with Octavia Bright

MY ONLY BOY: a once-in-a-lifetime love story


The Review Bookshop, Peckham

Tues 9 June, 7pm


Tickets: £5 (redeemable against the purchase of the book on the night). Free drinks!


Join the highly acclaimed author of Dreamland as she discusses her sensational new novel, My Only Boy: a once-in-a-lifetime love story, with writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright.


It is Elle’s job to manage disasters. But lately things have started to spin out of control. At work, the latest catastrophe has been live-streamed to the nation. A shock election sees an extreme-right coalition storm to power. Then, on a night so hot it feels like London’s pavements are melting, she meets Ed.

Elle and Ed are not meant to be drawn to each other. Elle has only ever been attracted to women, and Ed, billed as ‘the great gay novelist of our times’, is about to release his first book. But something inexplicable sparks between them.

Can the unexpected attraction they feel last when it presents such a profound challenge to their identity? And as the country fractures and the heat rises, how will they choose between the people they’ve known themselves to be – and the people they are willing to become.

Both an unforgettable love story and a state-of-the-nation thriller, My Only Boy asks universal questions about desire, complicity, and what happens when your sense of self collapses along with the world around you.


‘Completely original... this book charmed, provoked, and unsettled me in equal measure. Read it’ Maggie Millner, author of Couplets: A Love Story

' I can’t stop thinking about it’ Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party

‘I devoured this book. Rosa Rankin-Gee is a master at creating near future worlds with a simmering political back drop, pierced through with laughs and a love story that feels at once epic and beautiful and also completely universal’ Kayleigh Llewellyn, Bafta Award-winning creator of In My Skin

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Review, 131 Bellenden Rd, London, United Kingdom

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