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Molly House
Molly House
Molly House
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Molly House

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In England, during the Regency period, sodomy is still officially punishable by death, but London is very gay indeed. Wealthy gay men enjoy luxurious private clubs; the middle-class do their best to dodge raids and find companionship in pubs, private houses, and parks throughout the city; and the poor, as always, do whatever it takes to get by.

Jack Marshall is a small business owner, a London smuggler, and a sometimes drag queen who once seduced and secretly married a young male aristocrat. In The Year Without A Summer, a massive famine sweeps Europe. With his wife dead and his infant son's life hanging in the balance, Jack is forced to return to his wealthy ex-husband to beg for charity.

Theodore Hewes expects to spend his life insulated from the day-to-adversities suffered by gay men of lower rank. He only needs to hide his sexual proclivities from his suspicious family until he can inherit the vast estate that he is heir to, and then he can live a life of relative personal freedom. But when Jack Marshall careens back into his life, Theodore's conservative plan is upended, and he finds himself dragged into fatherhood, foolhardy love, and mortal danger.

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"This story was an adventure of the best kind. . .. It's breathtaking how life-threatening events, tragedy, romance, lightheartedness, joy, and love live side by side here. Nothing gets sugarcoated or ignored or broken down into easier digestible pieces . . . And heck, even the animals have character."

". . . a wild ride . . .I have laughed, cried, bitten my nails and felt so much love in ways hard to explain . . ."

"I really like how you handled all the nuances that come with the intersection of gay discrimination and being rich (or not). There are a lot of nuances about queerness, family of choice, wealth, gender and non-monogamy interwoven in the story and yet you write it so naturally that it feels effortless."

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PublisherA. R. Pip
Release dateMay 15, 2021
ISBN9781005605001
Molly House
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A. R. Pip

A. R. Pip (she/her) is a somewhat private person who is bisexual and was part of the LGBTQIA+ community way back when there were only four letters and marriage equality was a distant dream. Pip believes that transgender rights are human rights and she hopes her readers feel the same.Pip is a PhD trained scientist. Her previous publications were papers (and one very long thesis) on obscure topics in the field of DNA repair and replication. After she developed a chronic illness that made her bed-bound, she realized that, thanks to the modern internet, she could endlessly indulge her curiosity about LGBTQIA+ history. Molly House is the result of her explorations of the research of academic scholars who study LGBTQIA+ history. Pip has a tendency to give random and unprompted lectures on academic topics, and her friends have probably enjoyed this obsession more than any past one.Pip is now engaged in reading on the topic of smuggling in England, in the hopes of some day writing a novel about a ring of smugglers operating in southern England around the year 1800. Will there be LGBTQIA+ people in that smuggling ring? Of course. Because we belong in every kind of story.

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