The Dalliance: (including, My Surfer Boyfriend) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798271277498)

Everything you do is you, even if it's the lies you tell.

One rainy night in London, Graham and Liam meet for a drink, a walk-and-talk. Graham is clever and quietly fraying; fifty but feels older. Liam is intense, wounded and hard to pin down; a twenty-something who doesn't act it. As they walk through the city, through arguments, memories, bad jokes, and near-misses, there is something neither of them need to say:

Liam loves Patrick, and Patrick, is Graham's husband.

The Dalliance is a romance, a quirky reminiscence about London, Love, and its disappointments; about longing, loss, sex, self-deception and the humiliations of trying to connect across a generational divide. At once philosophical and sharply observed, from a single night it traces a lifetime's worth of distraction: past lovers, stray fantasies, a city that no longer feels like home, and the strange comfort of being misunderstood-

"Search for beauty," Graham tells Liam. "Not love. And never happiness."

-part confessional, part lament, part quiet comedy of errors, it is a novel about the ache of midlife, the impossible beauty of youth, and the stories we tell ourselves just to keep going.

Author: David Flybury
ISBN-13: 9798271277498
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d