Join us on Friday 22nd November at 7:30pm as we celebrate the publication of hotly anticipated debut, ISAAC by Curtis Garner
After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app – a disappointing yet addictive experience – he spends his final months before university escaping into a dizzying new world of casual sex with forgettable men. This all changes when he meets twenty-eight-year-old Harrison at a party.
He is immediately infatuated by the handsome, charismatic artist, but while they grow closer, his sense of self becomes increasingly hazy. Harrison’s demands shift constantly, and after Isaac tries everything to prove his worthiness, he must take a hard look at his ideas about love, sex and men, and his relationship with himself.
Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac interrogates masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. Candid, tender, sexy and entirely relatable, we can’t wait to see it out in the wider world.
“So vivid and real, it brought a thousand memories rushing back… I loved the sheer power of Isaac’s emotions, overwhelming him – that lovely, awful, endless battle, asking of your boyfriend: who are you? Which is really asking: who am I?” – Russell T Davies
“Truly impressive: funny, melancholic and acutely real. Isaac takes me back to my own adolescence in London, to being on the precipice of adult life… bracing and uncensorious” – James Cahill, author of Tiepolo Blue