Published by the Gay Men’s Press, and using a verse of Auden’s Musee des Beaux Arts as an introductory quote, this novel was written by Carnegie medal winner David Rees. Whilst not the first of Rees’ young adult novels to include gay characters, it was this book that was mentioned in a 1999 Section 28 debate in the House of Lords as not only promoting but ‘glorifying’ gay sex.