His Master's Lover
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.34 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1906561591 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 338 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In 1919 His Lordship declares that the Western Front may now be secure but the home front is still being undermined by Prime Minister Lloyd George and all his damned meddling . Only the humble gardener, Freddy has the intelligence to make money out of the new garden city full of homes fi t for heroes , which is being built next to the ancestral estate. However, His Lordship unwisely invests the family treasure in New York, just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Heroic Freddy restores the family fortunes by opening the fi rst profi table garden centre. Freddy s fate becomes further entwined with that of this noble English family when he becomes, in succession, the passionate gay lover of two generations of its heirs and only the profi ts from Freddy s garden centre save the day.
A lightweight 1920's gay romance Kiwifunlad This is a curious book for although it is set between 1919 to 1930, it has a very contemporary view of a gay relationship and the author's too frequent references to Oscar Wilde becomes numbingly repetitive and out of place.The narrator, Freddie is the gardener who falls in love with his aristocratic employer's shell shocked son, Charles. Freddie is very much the hero of the book having won the Victoria Cross and very quickly the family accept their son's relationship with Freddie. The narrative reads very much like a fairy tale with Freddie seemingly incapable of putting a foot wrong: from saving Charles from be