The Hand-Reared Boy Sphere Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of

Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers

Heather has a strange eye complaint

on which the lines between the two blur

It's fall in the Sierra Mountains

a scandalous love affair

The Hand-Reared Boy Sphere Michael Arnold's acclaimed series ofLonglisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, The Hand Reared Boy was the first literary novel to honestly, and explicitly, explore the sexual awakening of a young man. Quite shocking when first published in 1970, it is now considered a classic. It is the first book in the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy. Brian says: Young Horatio Stubbs suffers the pangs of adolescence, but is weaned from the pleasures of masturbation by the delights offered by his schools