Title: A Position in Paris: A gay romance set in 1919
Author: Megan Reddaway
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Page Count: 260
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
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A very sedate love story set at the end of WWI in Paris. James Clarynton survived the war, but lost a leg and an eye. He's set up in an apartment in Paris with lots of money (courtesy of a rich dead relative) but with little to actually do. His friend suggests he write a book and James engages a male secretary, Edmund, to take shorthand and transcribe.
Edmund lives a rather grim hand-to-mouth existence in Paris with his mother and brother Robby, who has tuberculosis. There is a secret about Edmund's family, and he keeps that shame very close to the chest. Edmund has his pride, if little else, and is very closed-mouth about his family and his background, and even his first name, which he doesn't share with James at first. (He goes by E. Vaughan.)