Overview

He's the Premier League's most valuable asset. But to the men who run the game, he's just a brand to be managed. Matthew Delany is twenty-six, one of the finest midfielders in the Premier League, and the keeper of a private life he has spent fourteen years protecting. PFA Player of the Year. A World Cup six months away. A life arranged around what is public and what is not-not from shame, but from strategy. Then someone decides that arrangement is a liability. A powerful football agent. An FA with commercial interests that require a certain kind of player. A conspiracy that operates entirely through implication, omission, and deniability-and that is prepared to go further than Matthew anticipated. Into all this walks Victor. Twenty years old. A psychology student working behind the bar at Matthew's local pub. The one person who sees Matthew with a clarity Matthew cannot apply to himself, and the one person who makes the ""strategy"" of his private life feel like currency. A Life of Two Halves is a gripping contemporary drama about institutional power and the violence it can enact without leaving evidence. It is a love story told almost entirely through proximity and restraint. It is the story of a man from Coventry who must decide if he will accept the brand they've built for him-or choose a second life that answers to no one. Perfect for fans of high-stakes sports fiction and sophisticated LGBTQ+ character dramas, this unputdownable novel explores the true cost of integrity in the billion-pound world of elite football.

Full Product Details

9781919287348

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Richard Malcolm is a Coventry-based novelist writing psychologically driven fiction that blends literary depth with contemporary drama and thriller elements. His work explores identity, perception, and the tension between public and private lives, shaped by his background in sports psychology at the University of Warwick.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available