Mates (1983)

by Tom Wakefield

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This GMP-published novel (published in the early 1980s) is a story of Cyril and Len who meet during their National Service in 1950s and are together ever since (not always happily). (

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Canonical title

Mates

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Original publication date

1983

People/Characters

Cyril Wiles

Len Ransome

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Epigraph

'... Such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage; it would be bound to have a private and experimental character which marriage cannot and should not have.'

Church of England's Working Party Report on Homosexuality, 1979

Dedication

for Keith Maiden, Malcolm Wren and Robert Collie

First words

Cyril had been in the army for just over two weeks when he noticed Len Ransome.

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King, Francis

Ackroyd, Peter