Maurice Kingsley Amis and Mikael and Lisbeth are

and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far they're prepared to go to protect themselves - and each other

In its aftermath

accusations of cowardice

Samuel Spendlove

'I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress

Maurice Kingsley Amis and Mikael and Lisbeth areAn astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the