Lucky Baby Jesus

by PeterBradshaw (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $29.75

  Celebrated media darling and much-feted gay icon, Sean Cunningham is the wealthy and wildly successful editor of infamous style magazine, SOMDOMITE. Rarely out of the public eye himself -- he's a past master when it comes to spin and the art of the sound-bite, not to mention his keep-them-guessing private life and penchant for controversy -- he seems to have achieved everything he could have wished for . . . and he's not yet thirty. But when he meets and falls for TV producer Catherine, his future suddenly seems rather less certain. His big problem, though, is not those aspects of his life that he'd always assumed would be his by right, but the one thing that everyone else has taken for granted. His sexuality. Specifically, he finds himself faced with the ultimate dilemma: can he come out of the closet and admit he's heterosexual without losing face, fans, or fame? Not to mention his job . . . Or the love of his life?

  'Focused, literate, intelligent, nicely observed, humane, funny' SUNDAY TIMES

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  Paperback
  2000

  $15.72

  Four friends in 1990s London: * Sean is the editor of a gay magazine called 'Somdomite'. He is a heterosexual, but for professional reasons he pretends to be gay. * Ysenda is a drinker, clubber and director of a Catholic research institute. * Wayne is an actor who has achieved fame in a gangland movie based on the life of Cardinal Newman * Nick is a bogus practitioner of the Complete Shiatsu Massage in his Highgate clinic. When Sean meets Ysenda's beautiful sister Catherine, a television journalist who adores his public persona, it forces him to confront his true heterosexuality and come out. But sometimes people want you to be the label they have given you...Peter Bradshaw's hilarious debut novel confronts that timeless question What happens if you are secretly heterosexual but your best friends believe you are gay?

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $4.25

  Four friends in 1990s London: * Sean is the editor of a radically conservative gay style magazine called 'Somdomite'. He is a closet heterosexual, but for professional reasons he pretends to be gay. * Ysenda is the outspoken female director of a Catholic research institute. * Wayne is an actor who has achieved fame in a sizzlingly violent gangland movie based on the life of Cardinal Newman. * Nick is the owner of a controversial psycho-physiotherapy practice in Highgate. When Sean meets Ysenda's beautiful sister Catherine, a television producer who adores Sean's public persona, it forces him to confront his true heterosexuality and come out. But sometimes people want you to be the label they have given you...and for Sean, for everyone, time is running out, as a millennial crisis is at hand. LUCKY BABY JESUS truly is a novel about the love that dare not speak its name!