Glitterland

Ash Winters was once the golden boy of English letters; now he writes pulp crime novels and lives from one swing of his clinical depression to the next, having given up on happiness and on himself. At a stag party in Brighton he collides with Darian Taylor, a flashy, loud and irrepressibly upbeat aspiring model from Essex who could hardly be more different from him, and who somehow makes him laugh. What starts as one night becomes something Ash wants and fears in equal measure, as his illness pushes him to sabotage the very thing that could save him. Kirkus called this reissued first Spires novel a shimmery, sexy M/M romance with a blunt but sensitive portrayal of mental illness.