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shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire

Clarke Awards

The human variety of gay experience is all here: lives lived in joyous defiance of the law and a repressive society

and solidarity with other marginalized people

But out here in the woods

The Space Between pubeasy shimmers with the thrills ofIt's New Year's Eve, and Beth plans to spend a whole year alone, in her snug, safe house. But she has reckoned without floppy eared, tail wagging Mouse, who comes nosing to her window. Followed shortly by his owner, Alice. As Beth's year of solitude rolls out, Alice gently steals her way first into Beth's house and later into her heart. And by the time New Year's Eve comes round again who knows? A tender and delicate love story in verse, The Space