He’s funny, he’s sharp, he’s gobby, a bit of a troublemaker at school – and he’s also gay, a secret he works incredibly hard to keep, making sure to act like one of the lads when it comes to all the shit they talk about girls and sex. Seventeen-year-old Matthew Leeson is extremely bright. It’s beautifully written with an absolutely wonderful sense of time and place I was a bit older than the two protagonists in 1995, when the first half of the story is set, but the picture the author paints is no less a recognisable one, the attitudes, the language, the overall feel of that time – it’s all wonderfully (and sometimes uncomfortably) familiar. Fearne Hill’s Two Tribes is a funny, touching and heartrending romance set across three decades in which we follow two teenagers from the Midlands as they fall in love (think Heartstopper but with class differences and a lot more snark and swearing!), are separated by circumstance and reunite twenty-five years later.
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