BOOKER 2023: Lesley Hamlyn, confronts the character Willie near the end of the novel and says to him that he has “never written about a homosexual affair in any of your books. You’ve never even alluded to it in all your stories, not even once. … And I think you never will. Why risk drawing the beam of that particular light onto yourself”. This is a blog on Tan Twan Eng (2023) ‘The House of Doors’. – Steve_Bamlett_blog

BOOKER 2023: Lesley Hamlyn, confronts the character Willie near the end of the novel and says to him that he has “never written about a homosexual affair in any of your books. You’ve never even alluded to it in all your stories, not even once. … And I think you never will. Why risk drawing the beam of that particular light onto yourself”. This is a blog on Tan Twan Eng (2023) ‘The House of Doors’.

BOOKER 2023: The female protagonist of The House of Doors, Lesley Hamlyn, confronts the character Willie, representing William Somerset Maughan, near the end of the novel and says to him that he has “never written about a homosexual affair in any of your books. You’ve never even alluded to it in all your stories, not … Continue reading BOOKER 2023: Lesley Hamlyn, confronts the character Willie near the end of the novel and says to him that he has “never written about a homosexual affair in any of your books. You’ve never even alluded to it in all your stories, not even once. … And I think you never will. Why risk drawing the beam of that particular light onto yourself”. This is a blog on Tan Twan Eng (2023) ‘The House of Doors’.