Watersprings

In Beaufort College’s walled garden, the first flowers of spring are aconites—“Deadly poison!” cries the Vice-Master. Howard Kennedy sees them differently: the first signs of life stirring beneath the soil.

At Cambridge, among ancient brick courts, Latin lessons and the rituals of college life, Howard is a capable, kind-hearted lecturer who seems comfortably at home. Then Jack Sandys arrives: boyish, carefree, and utterly at ease with the older man. Howard’s affection for his pupil surprises him, stirring a tenderness he has kept at a distance even from himself. As the spring Redmayne distrusts begins to break through, Howard must wonder whether he is truly living—or merely watching life from the shelter of his rooms. What might Jack awaken in him?

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