Pansies

On paper, Alfie Bell has made it: a six-figure London job, a penthouse, the car he promised himself at eighteen and a crowd of polished friends. Going back to his working-class hometown in the north of England, where…

On paper, Alfie Bell has made it: a six-figure London job, a penthouse, the car he promised himself at eighteen and a crowd of polished friends. Going back to his working-class hometown in the north of England, where everyone now knows he is gay, is another matter, and he expects nothing from it until he meets Fen, a florist with pink-tipped hair, hipster glasses and the kind of courage Alfie has…