Green Twining: A Queer Gothic Romance of Secrets, Small-Town Love, and the Courage to Belong...
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Added on February 10, 2026
Description
A love buried beneath secrets. A farm haunted by the past. A future that refuses to be silenced.Surrounded by the windswept fields of Green Twining Farm, eighteen-year-old Joe Coffin feels trapped by silence, by grief, and by a family history kept fearfully hidden beneath awkward silences. The English countryside, beautiful yet suffocating, offers only ghosts and unanswered questions. Joe longs for escape, for connection and for the courage to live authentically.Then in his new job at Scawthorpe Town Hall he meets David, who is a quiet but magnetic presence in an otherwise everyday world of desks and filing cabinets. And what begins as friendship then starts to grow into something more tender and forbidden. But as David’s love for Joe unfolds, it begins to become clear that David hides a shadowy past of his own, a past which could threaten both his standing in the small town of Scawthorpe and the fragile love growing between him and Joe.Then when an eccentric and unexpected guest arrives at Green Twining Farm, long-buried memories begin to rise to the surface. And the past and present collide, forcing Joe to choose: stay silent in a world that demands it, or fight for the love his heart has always longed for.Set in the English countryside in the summer of 1985, Green Twining is a hauntingly beautiful LGBTQ+ romance about love, loss, and the quiet bravery it takes to belong.
Reader Reviews
Green Twining is one of those rare novels that feels both hauntingly gothic and deeply human, a story where the echoes of the past intertwine with the tender, unsteady rhythms of love and belonging. Andrew Cheffings masterfully captures the atmosphere of 1980s Lincolnshire, the isolation of the marshes, the shadow of the AIDS crisis, and the suffocating weight of silence in small-town life, yet what shines through most is the fierce resilience of love.Joe’s secret longing for David is rendered w
There is something both absurd and authentic about the way Andrew Cheffings writes emotional intimacy. In this scene from Green Twining, we’re thrown into a messy and magnetic conversation that unravels the love lines between Sean, Tim, and Lance. It’s sharp, funny, and oh so human.Sean steals the spotlight with his effortless storytelling and theatrical delivery. He manages to turn emotional confusion into entertainment, narrating his affairs with a combination of cheeky humor and subtle longin
Andrew Cheffings spins a sparkling, slyly heartfelt tale in Green Twining, full of tangled friendships, near-missed romances, and the messy truth of attraction. This particular scene captures everything I love about his style: dialogue that dances, characters who surprise you, and just enough chaos to keep the pages turning.The interplay between Sean, Tim, and Lance is sharp and comedic but layered with quiet longing and real vulnerability. Sean’s breezy honesty about his romantic entanglements
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