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Children of the Sun

By: Max Schaefer
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
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1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre rituals. It's a milieu in which he must hide his homosexuality, in which every encounter is explosively risky.

2003: James is a young TV researcher, living with his boyfriend. At a loose end, he begins to research the far right in Britain and its secret gay membership.

The two narrative threads of this extraordinarily assured and ambitious first novel unforgettably intersect.

Children of the Sun is a work of great imaginative sympathy and range - a novel of unblinking honesty but also of deep feeling, which illuminates the surprisingly thin line that separates aggression from tenderness and offers us a picture of a Britain that is strange and yet utterly convincing.

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Beautifully crafted and artfully written from the perspectives of two protagonists over two eras. This book was brave enough to show the sensitive humanity of skins, which you rarely see, as well as give a glimpse into their action over pen on street battles. The implosion of course came from within rather than externally. To live in a world of war and violence that never seems to end takes bottle whatever side you're on. Working class lads were not influenced by the culture but lived, fought and acted locally. i was curious if they did anything kindly for their white neighbours. was there a wider community?

Really enjoyed the vulnerability of all the characters and the love and longing between them as well. Ironically Sarah was the most amoral character in the whole book. Phil and Tom weren't even worth bothering with. James and Adam's relationship lacked any humour or banter and though i admired their ability to stay masculine in a gay relationship it was so sane it was difficult to swallow. gays are a wash of insecurities and neurosis at the best of times.

The descriptions of orange streetlamps under curtain, car and traffic noise, trees, cold and light will stay with me. Poetic and delicately observent and lovely. Very original and masterfully done. The beauty of nature and the modern day.

Beautiful descriptive prose

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