The liberty lad

Maurice Leitch

Frank Glass is gradually turning his back on Kildargan, the mill village of his youth, beckoned by the tantalising - and threatening - larger world beyond. Through Terry, a homosexual who bitterly resents the narrowness and bigotry of small-town society, Frank is introduced to the local gay underworld which he observes, fascinated but ultimately uninvolved, and to Bradley, Terry's cynical MP friend.