Description: From the author of "The Swimming-Pool Library" comes a novel about the lives of four men that intersect and intertwine during a long summer of discovery and heartbreak in London and the British countryside.
Review Quotes: The Spell contains the most delicately sensuous portrait-painting...brilliant imagery...and hilarious cross-purpose jokes... Sentence by sentence the novel weaves its magic ― Independent (London)
A masterpiece of sustained literary titillation ― The Times (London) Love, lust and loss among a group of middle-class gay Englishmen... Young and old, the town and the country, the wild and respectable: Holinghurst explores each of these uneasy conflicts with wit, generosity and sharply observed comedy ― Mail on Sunday (London) A bewitchingly beautiful tale... confirms his pre-eminence among the prose writers of his generation ― Daily Telegraph (Lonon) Comic fantasy is grounded in a wealth of sharp observation and psychological insight. Hollinghurst has lost none of his authority ― Evening Standard (London)"This colorful and often breathtakingly eloquent novel follows the lives of four gay men in the late '90s." -- Publishers Weekly "...never less than honest and realistic..." -- Kirkus Reviews