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Shelter is popular fiction, an exploration of love and friendship between men and a love letter to urban architecture.
When twenty-one-year-old builder Joe Wright meets Leo, he falls in love hard, and seemingly for ever. Mature, philosophical and intensely handsome, Leo teaches Joe an appreciation of music and literature, and, most importantly, a passion for the beautiful old buildings that are disappearing from Auckland’s central city. But when Leo suddenly vanishes from his life, then drifts back again years later, Joe – now a powerful developer of heritage architecture – is unable to move on from this first affair. As the years pass, and Leo stays just out of reach, can Joe open his eyes to new possibilities? An intense love story and a love song to a city’s vanishing past, Shelter depicts the myriad complexities of male relationships, the possibilities offered by chance encounters and the exquisite beauty of friendship – and a home – found in unexpected places.
- Centred around the life of Joe Wright, a gay builder and property developer who falls for Leo, a staggeringly handsome fellow builder, several years his senior, who loves classical novels and classical architecture and is also ‘straight’.
- A novel about second chances, the complications of bromance, but mostly about finding love.
- The story hinges on the complicated relationship between two men over several decades.
- It will inspire you to look up and appreciate the historic architecture of Auckland and reflect upon the many faces of our largest city.
Author: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
Paperback Published 20 February 2022 272 pages