Hide - Softcover

Tender, restrained, Hide is the freshly imagined story of a gay male couple who decide to give up the world -friends, family, career - in order to live out their forbidden love in the decades before gay liberation. This is a great love story (Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story)

Graceful and understated (New York Times Book Review)

Past and present intercut in this tender, exquisitely observed love story that demonstrates the sacrifices made in the name of commitment (Fanny Blake, Daily Mail)

One of the best debut novels we've had the pleasure to read this year . A profoundly compassionate book about how we administer to those we love, the tender acrimony of intimacy and facing loss in a world dominated by threat. The story is understated, poignant, beautifully observed and lingers with you long after you've reluctantly read the final page (Attitude)

An extraordinary, subtle, unsettling book. It's a daring, searching, powerful piece of work. He never puts a foot wrong. Those two men, their histories, their difference and the passion that held them loom off the page . I admired the relentless power of this writing ... Ferocious, unsentimental and masterful (Patricia Duncker, author of Hallucinating Foucault)

A tough, thoughtful story beautifully told (Eithne Farry, Sunday Express)

A masterful novel. Every page aches with life (Gail Godwin, author of The Good Husband)

Reading Matthew Griffin's Hide, I kept saying to myself 'at last!': a novel that follows the trajectory of a marriage (in fact if not in name) between two men over the course of decades, and does so with grit, humour and compassion! Hide is a welcome and important work (David Leavitt, author of The Two Hotel Francforts)

Tough but compassionate and beautifully observed, Matthew Griffin's debut novel is an unflinching look at the cost of isolation in an intolerant society and a moving story about the persistence of love (Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements)

A profound and complex achievement ... Hide renews one's faith in the future of gay fiction (Gregory Woods, author of Homintern)