Green Twining

19-year-old Joe Coffin lives with his parents at Green Twining Farm, a place of bad memories and angry ghosts, which block Joe's every move. His workmate at Scawthorpe Town Hall, David, to whom Joe feels romantically drawn, has a past which isn't what it seems, but if it became known to the wrong people could destroy what little standing in the town he still has. When an unpredictably odd friend of a friend comes to stay at the farm, carrying with him his own troubling, half-remembered past, the world of Green Twining and David's world in Scawthorpe are - by degrees - turned upside down, bringing interesting romantic possibilities and new ways forward, but also potential danger, for both David and Joe. But Green Twining hides an unlikely hero, with acquaintances in surprising places, who might just turn everything around. The San Francisco of Tales of the City, transposed to the hinterland of the river Humber, meets Cold Comfort Farm, with a dash of Seven Bridegrooms for Seven Brothers, in this tale of multiple gay rural romances from the author of Muddy Lane.