Moore, a psychotherapist working in London, also has deep ties to Ireland’s gay community, as Hot Press magazine’s gay columnist Bootboy.

This memoir, or rather disjointed diary, follows the author through the most recent decade of his life; its opening chapter is set in London in 1994, and subsequent chapters leap back and forth in time, linked not by chronology or place but by emotional themes. A beautifully written book that is unswervingly honest, affecting and relevant.