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Louise Blaydon

Louise Blaydon is a writer, specialising primarily in the m/m romance genre. Her interests are esoteric and changeable, and range from linguistic archaeology to modernist poetry; long walks in the cold to lazy drunken evenings; kicking up leaves to sleeping curled up around the cat. Louise has been writing for as long as she can remember, and penned her first half-formed m/m story at the age of eight. Now in her late twenties, she has meandered somewhat, geographically, from her point of origin, and consequently nurses a love of stories of exile, and of landscapes described like lovers.

Louise has written journalistically in the past, but now writes mainly prose fiction. If the occasional poem threatens the calm of her existence, she refuses to be blamed for it.

Summer Song won a 2010 Rainbow Award as Best Gay Young Adult/Coming of Age.

Source: www.goodreads.com/author/show/3977521.Louise_Blaydon

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Summer Song by Louise Blaydon
Paperback: 206 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (June 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615814523
ISBN-13: 978-1615814527
Amazon: Summer Song
Amazon Kindle: Summer Song

Billy Bronner is, to all appearances, every inch the 1950s American dream: handsome, clever, captain of the high school football team, looks good enough in tight jeans that people can even forget he’s Jewish. Then the new guy on the block, the enigmatic Leonard Nachman, turns his head, and over the summer Billy discovers a new world of romance and love—in a man’s arms. But when Kit O’Reilly, Billy’s best friend and shadow, comes home after spending the summer with relatives, he finds Billy acting… differently. Soon enough, it becomes obvious that this change is related to Len, and Kit will have to decide if he’ll accept the relationship Billy and Len have forged, or if he’ll push Billy and their longtime friendship away.

More Rainbow Awards at my website: www.elisarolle.com/, Rainbow Awards/2010


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elena_62
Jul. 16th, 2014 12:47 pm (UTC)

I remember reading ''Summer Song'' and giving it 5 stars. I should probably reread it...

Thank you for reminding me of the book!

Ciao

A
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