The Pharmacist: Three (Welston World Sagas)

Twenty-four-year-old Billy is beautiful and sexy. Albert―The Pharmacist―is a compelling but damaged older man and a veteran of London’s late 90s club scene. After a chance meeting in the heart of the London’s East End Billy is seduced into the sphere of Albert. An unconventional friendship develops fuelled by Alberts queer narratives and an endless supply of narcotics. Alive with the twilight times between day and night consciousness and unconsciousness the foundations of Billys life begin to irrevocably shift and crack as he fast-tracks toward manhood. This story of lust love and loss is homoerotic bildungsroman at its finest. At the heart of Davids The Pharmacist is an oddly touching and bizarre love story a modern day Harold and Maude set in the drugged-up world of pre-gentrification Shoreditch. The dialogue especially bristles with glorious life. -JONATHAN KEMP author of London Triptych An exploration of love and loss in the deathly hallows of twenty-first century London. Justin Davids prose is as sharp as a hypodermic needle. Unflinching uncomfortable but always compelling The Pharmacist finds the true meaning of love in the most unlikely places. -NEIL McKENNA author of Fanny and Stella.