Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love. I relished every page.

Blackmore has taken the historical facts and created an imaginative, layered, clever story that explores male desire in an intolerant time. With wit and aplomb he performed a similar trick in The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, riffing on the gay life of the polymath Francis Bacon. Radical Love confirms Blackmore as being one of the most original voices in historical fiction today.

I was staggered by this book; one of the boldest novelistic explorations of desire I have read in some time. Frighteningly prescient, it shines a light on the world-making possibilities of erotic transgression and the violence that so often comes in its wake.

Forget Bridgerton. Neil Blackmore's Radical Love give us the people of Regency England and its people as they really were; brutally intolerant, scarred by slavery, marred by oppression and social injustice. Don't look for heroes here - look for life as it's really lived, people as they really are.

A celebration of the erotic lives of long-dead gay Londoners and a lament for past persecutions, Radical Love is a powerful story of desire flourishing amid danger.

Radical Love is both a searing portrayal of love and obsession, and breathtaking in its depiction of the brutality and hypocrisy of prejudice, all told in sharp, beautiful prose. An unforgettable book.

Utterly compelling. So beautifully written, so many twists and turns and achingly sad moments where I gasped aloud. I haven't read a novel that's tugged at my heartstrings as much as this since John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies. A must-read ... I'll be thinking about it for a long time to come.

A page-turner

Full of urgent questions about individual and collective freedoms, and the writing of history...Compellingly real.

A tale of courage and survival, richly imagined and full of pitch-perfect period detail and sly wit.

A complex, thought-provoking tale, and a must-read for anyone seeking to explore the intersections of love, resistance, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Blunt, raw and unapologetically sexual, Radical Love is a story of human flaws, the dangers of both honesty and deception, and idealism in the face of cruel reality.

Holding up a lens to a 19th century existence while asking uncomfortable questions of our own times, it explores how a high price must be paid in the pursuit of love.

[A] tender yet political tale

Lyrical and excoriating

It's a hit

Freaky Friday is all grown up in this heartfelt and heartwarming tale of two women in very different circumstances.... From the storyteller behind Me Before You comes a story of reinvention that just might inspire you to make a change yourself-just buy your own shoes

Empathy and an extravagant plot collide in Moyes's big hug of a novel. Its real heart is the burgeoning friendship between two brilliantly realised but very different fortysomething women

Charming ... Moyes is never short on her trademark clever observations ...[her] fans will have a ball

Somehow heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time

Explores themes of female friendship, motherhood, ageing, love and disillusionment. Moyes brings her main characters - a unlikely group of women thrown together - to life, each as flawed as they are brilliant, and stronger together

Something to get excited about . . . [The] most compelling and readable of novels, which will make you wonder what it's really like to walk in someone else's shoes

Showcases Moyes' ability to portray emotion and female friendship with themes of love, betrayal, family, and hope. It is action packed and will have readers rooting for Nisha and Sam

Full of fun, unlikely friendships . . . and female empowerment, it's a welcome escape. A funny romp

A love letter to the strength of female friendship and how women can really be there for each other

A stirring tale of sisterhood, survival and being seen

A heartfelt story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances

Praise for Jojo Moyes

Moyes is on dazzling form in this big-hearted story

Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best

Blisteringly good

This truly beautiful story made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it

Entertaining, immersive and moving

Dazzling

Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love

A genuinely entertaining book, a really cracking story