Taking Stock

· JMS Books LLC
4.0
2 reviews
Ebook
100
Pages
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About this ebook

It's 1972. Fifteen years earlier, teenage Laurie Henshaw came to live at Webber's Farm with his elderly uncle and settled in to the farming life. Now thirty-two, Laurie has a stroke in the middle of working on the farm. As he recovers, he has to come to terms with the fact that some of his new limitations are permanent and he's never going to be as active as he used to be. Will he be able to accept the helping hands his friends extend to him?

With twenty successful years in the city behind him, Phil McManus is hiding in the country after his boyfriend set him up to take the fall for an insider trading deal at his London stockbroking firm. There's not enough evidence to prosecute anyone, but not enough to clear him, either. He can't bear the idea of continuing his old stagnating life in the city or going back to his job now everyone knows he's gay.

Thrown together in a small country village, can Phil and Laurie forge a new life that suits the two of them and the makeshift family who gathers round them? Or are they too tied up in their own shortcomings to recognise what they have?

Ratings and reviews

4.0
2 reviews
Latecia Jennings
September 19, 2020
**First Time Reader**.This was a very lovely story about two guys finding each other after having traumatic experiences that upturns their normal everyday life. The era (Britain in the 70s) in which this story was based on grabbed my attention and it was fascinating to read how homosexuality was viewed then...so much different to today. I really enjoyed the story and got a kick out of automatically hearing British accents just by reading the dialogue...Loved It! I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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