The Outing (Learn More)
As the mother of a gay son the story of Alan Turing, the first gay man on a British banknote was one of the many to motivate me to write The Outing. The news articles i read about this man brought tears to my eyes. Alan was an outstanding computer scientist and a war hero but that didn’t spare him from what some have called a “witch hunt” of gay and bisexual men in the U.K., which led to the imprisonment of thousands of gay men and those suspected of being gay throughout the 1950s.
In January 1952, Turing was prosecuted for indecency over his relationship with another man in Manchester. Despite being referred to as a “national asset” during this trial by character witness Hugh Alexander, the head of cryptanalysis at the Government Communications Headquarters, Turing was persecuted.
The Man with the Butterfly Mind (Learn More)
Bimba wants to find a man who doesn’t know he’s missing. But when this small dog with no bark brings together a Japanese student, a little old lady, and an uncommunicative vet, they discover that helping someone else inadvertently sets the universe to work in surprising and unexpected ways.