I think I have a new literary crush: Adam Berwick, the kind, introspective bachelor farmer in “The #JaneAusten Society,” the charming and, at times, deeply moving novel by Natalie Jenner.

Adam joins my other fictional crushes: #AlecScudder from #Maurice by #EMForster (he was played by Rupert Graves in the #MerchantIvory film version), Roderick Brooke from the Sybil Ingram novels by Amanda DeWees, and Simon Kincaide from the Badlands series of novels by Morgan Brice (Gail Martin).

“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”

― E.M. Forster, Maurice

#Maurice #EMForster #MauriceHall #AlecScudder #lgbtqliterature #lgbtqbooks #fanart #notmine #credittotheowner