The Spell

Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover Justin a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin''s attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old son Danny; and Justin''s former boyfriend Alex whose life is unexpectedly transformed by a night of house music and a tab of ecstasy.As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs country living or rough trade a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love and of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life: the hunger for contact and the fear of commitment the need for permanence and the continual disruptions of sex. Ultimately The Spell details the restlessness of every human heart.