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|title=Rory's Boys

|author=Alan Clark

|publisher=Bliss

|date=June 2011

|website=http://www.rorysboys.com

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|summary=A debut novel illustrating the importance of community alongside a satirical look at society's attitudes but not in a fusty, boring way. It's warm, funny and big-hearted, showing what it's like to be gay, straight, getting older, being alone, needing to search for personal identity, how certain upbringings can mess life up... It's basically about what it's like to be human.

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Rory Blaine, grandson of Lady Sybil Blaine is gay, free, single and loving it, as he tells himself a dozen times a day. He may be middle aged but he's still got it. He's a partner in a successful advertising firm and so, so over having been thrown out of home when he was a teenager; yes, over it – totally and completely. When he hears his grandmother is dying, he decides it's time to remind her (and her considerable wealth) of his existence. The tardy but intensive attention seems to pay off when he's left the ancestral pile. But the stately home wasn't left to him quite in the way that he thought. There are so many strings attached it resembles a marionette: if he wants to keep it he must transform it into the first retirement home for elderly gay gentlemen and he also seems to have acquired his first resident, whether he's wanted or not.