For Carlisle Martin, a dance-obsessed girl growing up with her mother in Ohio, an annual fortnight with her father and his boyfriend in their Greenwich Village home exuded impossible glamour. Stepping through Robert and James’s front door was her “favourite entrance to perform”, and life within – full of art, beauty and flatteringly age-inappropriate conversation – felt like a ballet. Then, one summer in her early 20s, Carlisle found herself banished from their world.
She hasn’t seen either man in almost two decades, and has made her own way as a choreographer, when James calls to summon her to her father’s deathbed. The cause of their estrangement is the driving mystery in They’re Going to Love You, Meg Howrey’s fourth novel, a luminous chronicle of betrayal, sacrifice and creative ambition, framed by New York’s Aids crisis in the 1980s and some seriously complex family dynamics.
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