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Author: Harper Fox

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It’s 1946, and the dust of World War Two has just begun to settle. When famous archaeologist Rufus Denby returns to London, his life and reputation are as devastated as the city around him. He’s used to the most glamorous of excavations, but can’t turn down the offer of a job in rural Sussex. It’s a refuge, and the only means left to him of scraping a living. With nothing but his satchel and a mongrel dog he’s rescued from a bomb site, he sets out to investigate an ancient church in the sleepy village of Droyton Parva.It’s an ordinary task, but Droyton is in the hands of a most extraordinary vicar. The Reverend Archie Thorne has tasted action too, as a motorcycle-riding army chaplain, and is struggling to readjust to the little world around him. He’s a lonely man, and Rufus’s arrival soon sparks off in him a lifetime of repressed desires.Rufus is a combat case, amnesiac and shellshocked. As he and Archie begin to unfold the archaeological mystery of Droyton, their growing friendship makes Rufus believe he might one day recapture his lost memories of the war, and find his way back from the edge of insanity to love.It’s summer on the South Downs, the air full of sunshine and enchantment. And Rufus and Archie’s seven summer nights have just begun...

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The entire premise of this book made me anxious. Set in 1946, just a year after World War II ended (a year after my parents married, nine years before I was born), “Seven Summer Nights” is in a world that was, to say the least, uncongenial to gay folk, both in the UK and in the USA. Historical novels about gay men always worry me, and thus I am awestruck when an author can pull off a convincing story without warping reality to suit modern sensibilities. And yet, historically, it was a time when, having survived the nightmare of a war that ended in nuclear destruction, some gay men and women began to reevaluate the world around them, and to discount the religious and social opprobrium that had hitherto been accepted without question. The world had literally been blown to pieces, and nothing sacred was left unquestioned – including the very idea of what was sacred.“Seven Summer Nights” is simply beautiful from the beginning. Fox’s cinematic sense of place is in full sway, and her hero’s pain and confusion are at the fore, keeping her readers from fully understanding what’s going on, while enveloping them in sensation and emotion. It is a remarkable start. Fox’s unparalleled writing brings her broken hero, Rufus Denby, from a small, dusty island in the Greek archipelago to a small, untouched verdant town deep in the English countryside. Rufus Denby is someone it takes a long time to understand over the course of the book’s long narrative; but as soon as he rescues a dog from the ruins of his former apartment block in London, we know without doubt that he is the moral core of this story. By the time Denby and Pippin reach Droyton Parva, I was hopelessly hooked.As I read “Seven Summer Nights,” I had in mind Mary Renault’s amazing but sad novel, “The Charioteer,” written in 1953 about a gay man during World War II. But I also had in mind Anthony Trollope’s Barchester novels, set amidst the small-town lives of gentry and clergy in Victorian England – all of which I’ve read more than once. Fox makes that connection explicit, once Rufus Denby meets the Reverend Archibald Thorne (a very Trollopian name), who is the widowed vicar of Droyton Church.Archie Thorne suspects there is something important about his little medieval church, set on a hillock outside of the village of Droyton Parva. He asks his cousin Caroline, a deputy director at a great London museum, to send an apprentice archaeologist out to see if he can’t uncover something before the diocese sends in a restoration team. His cousin (who is a lesbian, which matters in this book) sends him the unemployed and mentally compromised Dr. Denby. Rufus immediately sees something remarkable in this isolated and unknown ancient church, and lets himself be drawn into the chaotic, big-hearted orbit of the Reverend Thorne. Here the book takes on a wonderful sort of hilarious Brit-com action; the charm of the town and the eccentric variety of its denizens lulling both Denby and the reader into a sense of peace and comfort. But two things work against this peace: Denby’s realization that he is falling for Archie Thorne, and the recurrence of his own violent episodes, triggered by nightmares that stem from his final bloody battle in the war.There are two dark subplots weaving their way into Rufus’ bucolic retreat, both of them concerning grieving young women. Rufus’ widowed sister, Rosemary, lives with her martinet father-in-law, Brigadier Spence, who bullies her and demands that Rufus remember good things about his son – who died during Rufus’ last battle in France. Then there’s Alice Winborn, niece of Droyton Parva’s local sawbones, Dr. Winborn. Alice is lovely, but is grieving her own wartime loss. Winborn has known Archie Thorne since he was a boy, and seems determined to marry off his daughter and thus cure her sadness.Of course, into this already complex stew, Harper Fox introduces an element of magic, about which I will say nothing other than it embraces the nighttime wanderings of an eccentric madwoman, long-forgotten history, and an ancient enmity between two of Droyton Parva’s oldest families.Remarkably, Fox manages to stay within the bounds of contemporary gay romance fiction, while creating a literary setting for her readers that is as beautiful and good as anything by any prize-winning author today. Her craftsmanship as a writer is startling. He attention to character and place and the deep emotional underpinnings of her plots are her greatest gifts to her fans.Someday Harper Fox will not impress me. This was not that day.

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