Love, written precisely, reluctantly, and then all at once.

Twenty years of friendship, three of flatshares, one double bed bought sixty quid off Gumtree, and a silence Felix has spent his whole life perfecting. Then one cold night on the Yorkshire moors, the careful distance collapses in eighteen inches of mattress.

Neil Ashworth has a system that keeps him invisible. Then the school hires Rory Cavanaugh to paint a mural, and over one school year a careful man learns whether being seen is worth the risk of being known.

Ewan falls for the lecturer he isn't supposed to be alone with. His older brother Ronan, the one everyone leans on, finally finds a word for what he is — and it isn't the one his mother wants to hear. Literary, slow, and quietly devastating.