Now & Then by William Corlett

Now & Then by William Corlett

Now: Christopher Metcalfe returns to his family home in Kent after the death of his standoffish father. Sorting through a box of memorabilia from his days at boarding school, Chris finds himself confronted by a photograph and a face that has haunted him for thirty years. Then: At gloomy Blandford House, a fifteen-year old Chris endures the dull lessons, rigid schedules, and thrashing by the older prefects. And then a most extraordinary thing happens: he is seduced by the charismatic Stephen Walker, a prefect two years older, who offers Chris the affection and attention he craves. Alone, approaching the age of fifty, Christopher has never been able to forget his first love but has long wondered what happened to Stephen when the boy graduated Blandford. They had planned to runaway to Spain.and never did. Delicately revealing the layers of both past and present as it alternates between now and then, William Corlett's moving debut novel illuminates the vacuity of Christopher's emotional life with subtle power and poignancy, exploring a multitude of themes in its exposition of a gay man's search for identity.

Following his education at Fettes College in Edinburgh, William Corlett studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He began creating plays for the stage soon after, notably The Gentle Avalanche and Return Ticket, both of which were shown in London. Several television dramas followed, including the award-winning series Barriers, for which he won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Children's Writer and the New York International Film and Television Festival's Gold Award. Another Writers' Guild Award for Best Children's Writer went to him for his writing for the children's series The Paper Lads. William published a series of young adult novels between 1978 and 1988, including The Gate of Eden, The Land Beyond, Return to the Gate, The Dark Side of the Moon, Bloxworth Blue, and The Hidden Line.

He also co-wrote The Question Series, a collection of six books exploring different religions from around the world. In 1990, Edinburgh Films filmed his adaptation of the Jill Paton Walsh novel Torch, which garnered him another nomination for the Writers' Guild Best Children's Writer of the Year Award. In addition, his BBC version of Elizabeth Goudge's novel The Little White Horse earned a Silver Prize at the New York International Film and Television Festival in 1994. The Magician's House Quartet, written by William Corlett and published by The Bodley Head in London, has just been adapted into a major BBC television series.

His most recent novel for young readers is The Summer of the Haunting, a contemporary ghost story.

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ISBN 13	9781590216224
ISBN 10	1590216229
Title	Now & Then
Author	William Corlett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Lethe Press
Year published	2016-04-12
Number of pages	292
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