Paperback
Published: 13/11/2025
ISBN: 9781914148804
Length: 176
Price: £10.99
‘I mean, it’s nothing really. An old face from the past.’
Two men meet on a dating app. It’s supposed to be a casual encounter between strangers. Jordan is only back in Edinburgh to visit his complicated family, and Davie is reeling from a painful breakup.
Yet Davie recognises Jordan as someone he knew long ago, when they were both closeted teenagers at the same school. Back then, Jordan was relentlessly bullied – and Davie was one of the bullies. But Jordan doesn’t remember him at all.
Against the backdrop of a city steeped in memories, Davie and Jordan find themselves drawn together again and again. A fragile intimacy blossoms between them, but can anyone ever be free of their past?
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‘I was quietly moved by Allan Radcliffe’s thoughtful, lovely story, steeped in vodka, bog-smell, and aging rain, about these wounded characters who tiptoe toward one another and risk the terrifying possibility of an un-haunted life. I want to believe they can do it.’ — Jeanne Thornton, author of A/S/L and Summer Fun
‘Allan Radcliffe’s sophomore effort is an intimate tale of two souls attempting to find themselves, as well as each other. Character-driven yet cinematic, “Blurred Faces” is tenderly romantic and achingly poignant with a sharp complexity in what could be a spare story. The prose has a breathlessness, like the characters are anticipating a fall. Buffeted by their families as well as the choices they’ve made on their own, in the end, the two lovers discover that maybe they’re not broken; maybe they’re just bruised.’ — Harker Jones, author of Until September