The Dalliance: (including, My Surfer Boyfriend)

By David Flybury

Everything you do is you, even if it's the lies you tell.

One rainy night in London, Graham and Liam meet for a drink, a walk-and-talk. Graham is clever and quietly fraying; fifty but feels older. Liam is intense, wounded and hard to pin down; a twenty-something who doesn't act it. As they walk through the city, through arguments, memories, bad jokes, and near-misses, there is something neither of them need to say:

Liam loves Patrick, and Patrick, is Graham's husband.

The Dalliance is a romance, a quirky reminiscence about London, Love, and its disappointments; about longing, loss, sex, self-deception and the humiliations of trying to connect across a generational divide. At once philosophical and sharply observed, from a single night it traces a lifetime's worth of distraction: past lovers, stray fantasies, a city that no longer feels like home, and the strange comfort of being misunderstood-

"Search for beauty," Graham tells Liam. "Not love. And never happiness."

-part confessional, part lament, part quiet comedy of errors, it is a novel about the ache of midlife, the impossible beauty of youth, and the stories we tell ourselves just to keep going.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1TGFYJK
• ISBN13: 9798271277498
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"