Letters Between Gentlemen is an epistolary novel set in Victorian England, told through fifty-five love letters exchanged between Oxford scholar Edmund Ashford and London gentleman Reginald Vane between 1857 and 1867.
When Edmund risks everything by writing an honest letter to his closest friend, he sets in motion a correspondence that will define both their lives. Over ten years, through the pressures of family expectation, the constraints of a society that has no language for what they are, and the quiet courage required simply to keep loving each other, Edmund and Reginald build - letter by letter - something rare and enduring.
Written in the authentic voice of the Victorian age, these letters move from tentative confession to settled devotion, from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the fog of London and the light of Italy. Each letter is a small, complete world - some no more than a handful of lines, others long and searching - and together they form one of the most intimate love stories of the era.
Letters Between Gentlemen is a celebration of epistolary fiction at its finest: proof that love, even when it must speak in careful code, finds a way to be unmistakable.
For readers of Maurice, The Remains of the Day, and The Paying Guests.
