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Offstage Kindle Edition

4.3 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

That Thursday, the day he started, was the first day in what felt like forever that I didn't consider what the world would be like without me in it.

From the author of the award-winning 'FAG' and 'Not Just a Boy' comes a story of youthful lust, the agonising ambiguity of a close friendship and the fragile nature of truth. 'Offstage' is the tale of a young man's first love in a sleepy seaside town he is desperate to escape.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07PH7ZJRV
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hilltop Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 9, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 266 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 121 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

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Jonathan Hill
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Jonathan Hill is an author from Manchester, UK.

His work isn’t confined to one genre, but he has already published a number of gay literary fiction books to high critical acclaim. His debut novel 'FAG', a hard-hitting story set in an English boarding school in the 1930s, was named as the overall winner in the Self-Published and Small Press 2014 Book Awards.

He has also penned the hit comedy series of Maureen books, in addition to numerous short stories and 100-word drabbles. Jonathan firmly believes that writing should not only entertain but also enhance and change the way readers view the world.

When he’s not writing and working as a pharmacist, he enjoys painting, photography and going to the theatre.

www.jhillwriter.com

www.fagthenovel.com

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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2019
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    A kiss and drunken lips. Is it a close friendship between Daniel and Nathan or the birth of the first love?

    Who speaks the truth when youthful lust gets the cold shoulder?

    Love cannot be killed. If it cannot be reciprocated it must be endured.

    In Offstage Jonathan Hill gets more sexual, more erotic, more sensual, more emotional, more unforgiving, more everything.

    More a writer.

    I needed a break after reading this story. And a few moments of solitude. Jonathan Hill can do that to you. There lies his brilliancy.

    Read him!

    Bernard Jan
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019
    Format: Kindle
    Offstage by Jonathan Hill.
    Offstage' is the tale of a young man's first love in a sleepy seaside town he is desperate to escape.
    This is beautifully written. I liked Daniel's character. This isnt my usual reading genre but it was different. 4*.

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  • AC/DC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterly
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2023
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Offstage by Jonathan Hill
    One of the very few books I have ever read that leaves me shaken and stirred: Offstage is a masterpiece for all sorts of reasons. A short work of just over a hundred pages, it shares with the best folksong that very rare quality of restraint - or rather it is Jonathan Hill that has the quality of restraint, reining himself in from the usual writer's tendency to expose everything in words on the page, and not miss a single detail or explanation of exactly how one event leads to another. He sticks to a tight dramatic form: Prologue, Act One, Interval, Act Two, and Curtain Call. He trusts to the reader's maturity to fill in the gaps, and to make sense of the thrust of the story. In this way the book comes to exist inside us, the reader; it is what we make of it in our own interiority, rather than all being laid out for us and for our admiration on the page.
    Beautifully managed, too, is the writing, with, for instance, a recurring image of water that appears variously as the sea, the shower, the toilet, urine and bodily fluids: water in so many of its aspects as supporting, enjoyable, intimate, dangerous, disgusting, and so on, a strong metaphor for relationship. Vivid and accurate description is never allowed to disrupt the tight form Hill has set for himself. This guy is a writer.
    There is something of an irony that this restrained expression in the author is also the moving spirit behind the main characters, Daniel and Nathan, whose names we have to wait some time to discover. We know them quite well before we even find out their names, savouring the content before seeing the label. It is what is unsaid that powers the story. Nevertheless, we are introduced to Daniel's tendency to overthink his life to the point where neither he, nor we, know what is real. He meets but does not meet people, as happens explicitly in the Interval. His hopes, his fears, remain largely unexpressed and untested. Such reticence is made psychologically totally convincing by the undemonstrative parents who are quite unable to enjoy, affirm and celebrate Daniel's Truth. They have quite a few things to hide themselves, apparently, and so they condemn him, in turn, to a life of contained anxiety and terror of presenting himself to the world. Hence, Offstage.
    The dawning on him of the dangers of this secrecy are the salvation of Daniel: 'Someone I once knew and yet didn't know at all, someone I wouldn't allow myself to know, blinded as I was by what I so dearly wanted from him, and us.'
    I loved this book and look forward to reading it again and again, as I am sure there is more subtlety in it to find and enjoy.
  • Ashrae
    5.0 out of 5 stars Offstage
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2019
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    This book sucked me in from the very first page. I even read through my indignation about the way the MC described Matinee theatre-goers! I go in the afternoon, it's more convenient!!
    Anyway, that's nothing to do with the book. In it, we follow a young man, living in a sleepy seaside town, who is just coming to terms with his sexuality. A difficult enough time for anyone I'd imagine, but then, one day, a new face appears working alongside him in the theatre as an usher. He is visiting with his Gran and working there for the holidays. There's a spark between them but, as we all know, first love never runs smoothly, especially not in a book! And so begins our hero's journey into his sexual awakening and the highs and lows of it all; the beauty and the seedy.
    This was a lovely and very poignant story. It had me laughing and weeping in equal measure as I avidly read on, devouring the book in an afternoon - straight through - it held me captive. I was powerless to put it down.
    The writing is beautifully descriptive and lyrical in places. So much so, that I was well able to "see" the action play out in my head as I was reading. Not being a visual reader, this doesn't happen very often but it's lovely when it does. OK, so I could have done without the description of some of the places in the book, but rough and smooth and all that!
    And, yes, OK, I did get a bit emotionally invested in the characters. They were so easy to connect with that I took to them straight away and followed each interaction with my heart in my mouth.
    Another thing I really loved was the journey back in time with so much that I remember from my own childhood; the phone call screening especially made me cringe! So many things that just brought me closer to the story being told. Love a good memory-link!
    All in all, a very pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon hiding from the awful weather. I have a few of this author's books on my TBR and, after thoroughly enjoying this one, I am going to try and squeeze them all in soon.
  • Catherine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, poignant romantic story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2019
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Beautifully written with sensitivity and a little wry humour. Really enjoyed reading it.

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