num_pages: 256
description: The Orange shortlisted author's haunting debut about the pursuit of passion.Anna Raine is desperate: to escape Somerset, to evade her mother and, above all, to find a model of adulthood on which to base her future self. When Stella, her mothers reckless younger sister, offers her her London flat, Anna's buried curiosity about Stella quickly becomes fascination. While by day Anna feigns efficient adulthood, by night she sinks into an increasingly heated world of discovery.
language: English
title: Love in Idleness
titlecomplete: Love in Idleness
genres: Fiction, LGBT, Queer
ratings_count: 82
publisher: Picador USA