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Open, Heaven [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition]
Seán Hewitt
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hardcover. ****THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR ABOUT THE PUBLICATION DATE OF APRIL 2024**** This is a limited edition exclusive to Kennys with an essay only in this edition. It is signed and numbered by the author
Set in the English countryside, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage boys meet and transform each other’s lives.
‘It’s a novel about us’ KAVEH AKBAR
‘Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace’ ANNE ENRIGHT
On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. Beholden to the expectations of home and family, his burgeoning desire – an ache for autonomy, tenderness and sex – threatens to unravel his shy exterior.
Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome, charismatic and impulsive, he has been sent ... Read moreto live with his aunt and uncle on a nearby farm. Luke comes with a reputation for danger, yet underneath his bravado lie anxieties and hopes of his own.
As the seasons pass, and the pair form an ever-changing bond, James falls into a terrifying first love that will transform his life forever. Enthralling and richly immersive, Open, Heaven is a debut novel about the freedom of youth, the sacrifices of friendship, and the possibilities of love in all its forms.
‘A beautiful novel about how a first love can shape a whole life’
HELEN MACDONALD
‘Open, Heaven does what the very best coming of age stories do’
MICHAEL MAGEE
‘Gorgeous…thrums with hidden love and concealed truths’
ANDREW McMILLAN
‘Intensely conjured…as bittersweet and elegiac as birdsong’
PATRICK GALE
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London, United Kingdom
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About Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture’s Road, and a memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and ... Read morebeen shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Show Less
Reviews for Open, Heaven [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition]
Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace; in Open, Heaven, beauty, longing and the natural world form a single chord that strikes the heart of the reader with love’s impossibility. The heightened, poetic state of adolescence is perfectly captured here
ANNE ENRIGHT, Booker Prize-winning author of The Wren, The Wren Open, Heaven blisses with the bright verdure of youth ... Read more– blackbirds and blossoming hedges, wet hands held tight under buttery starlight. But Open, Heaven also courses with youth’s great agony, the cruelty that learning to love should be inexorably followed by learning to grieve its undoing. Hewitt's is a searching novel orbiting pleasure, loss, and the ecstatic release of both; which is to say it’s a novel about time. Which is to say it’s a novel about us
KAVEH AKBAR, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr! Beautifully written, deeply felt, Open, Heaven does what the very best coming of age stories do: it takes us back to those moments we often dismiss in our own lives, when we felt so deeply, so intensely, and so purely that the world seemed to stop
MICHAEL MAGEE, author of Close to Home A searchingly poignant and beautiful novel about how a first love can shape a whole life, Open, Heaven is a deeply felt, lyrical and impossibly tender read. Hewitt exquisitely conjures the passage of time and all the complexities of growing up queer, perfectly captures the way places and events become stitched into memory, and elucidates with rare power how transfixing, incandescent, and transfiguring a first love can be. It made my heart hurt in the best ways
HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk A novel very much about longing in a small village… James’s loneliness shifts and changes and takes on new hues. Incredibly atmospheric. Very God’s Own Country meets Heartstopper. I think people will love it
BRANDON TAYLOR, author of Real Life and The Late Americans A gorgeous debut; perfectly encapsulates the dirt and muck of urgent adolescent desire – a novel that thrums with hidden love and concealed truths, it takes the hand of the reader and walks with them through the isolated village of the young queer self
ANDREW McMILLAN, author of Pity and Physical Open, Heaven is a striking debut novel from a richly gifted poet and memoirist: an intensely conjured portrayal of the hopeless, all-consuming love of one lonely teenager for another and how it marks him for life. As in Hewitt’s poetry, the beauties of nature erupt throughout, seeming to express the things the two boys cannot voice and the cumulative effect is as bittersweet and elegiac as birdsong
PATRICK GALE, author of Notes from an Exhibition A page-turning tale of a first love, Open, Heaven is so tenderly written, so exquisitely crafted. The writing halts time and gives us a visceral sense of this life-changing experience. A wonderful debut
MONIQUE ROFFEY, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch I’ve so much to say about this book but I keep coming back to the term ‘pure-hearted’. It’s full of wisdom... It’s so moving, without an ounce of sentimentality. It’s simple and serious but it also manages to be genuinely suspenseful as well. Beautiful
AIDAN COTTRELL-BOYCE, author of The End of Nightwork Open, Heaven beautifully conveys the pain and possibility of first love. Written with generosity, this is a coming-of-age story whose protagonist never turns his gaze from the friend he desires, nor from the man he longs to become
CAOILINN HUGHES, author of The Wild Laughter Tender, timeless, troubled and true, Seán Hewitt’s desirous debut sees him as something of a modern successor to the heady and heartfelt writings of DH Lawrence or EM Forster. In other words: the real deal
BENJAMIN MYERS, author of The Gallows Pole Here is love with all its aches and calibrations, a tender, moving novel which gently embraces the reader. As the summer of love proves to be the briefest of seasons Hewitt quietly hymns the countryside too, charting its rhythms and leafy changes, as the poet in him shines insistently through
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