-Go on, Freddie, tell the whole story. Remember that last night when you were together. You knew then that your love had made you both immortal: here-s your chance to tell it.-
Suddenly confronted by memories of his first great love, Freddie McNaughton recounts how, together, they surmounted all obstacles until fate intervened.
It-s the 1960s and the world is changing, identities being redefined and loyalties challenged. At his single-sex Catholic public school the volatile sixteen year-old Freddie is discovering things about himself which he doesn-t know how to handle. But falling in love with the beautiful Paul changes all that: they bond, and dream of a life together. They adopt Walt Whitman-s famous poem -We Two Boys Together Clinging- which becomes their -national anthem-. Their intensity spills over in their response to art, music and poetry.
Telling his story through a series of letters written fifty years after the event and discovered after his
