‘He seemed to want to drive home the validity of his passion’.[1] Ernest Frost’s (1953) A Short Lease: A Novel London, John Lehmann: Lost Voices and the Queer Novel Jack Lambert in a contemporary review of the novel in The Sunday Times confidently describes the ‘subject’ of A Short Lease as ‘the aspirations of youth’. … Continue reading ‘He seemed to want to drive home the validity of his passion’. Ernest Frost’s (1953) ‘A Short Lease: A Novel’ London, John Lehmann: Lost Voices and the Queer Novel