Bill Edginton Author
From Freyberg Contemporary Gay fiction
	From Freyberg is a contemporary novel about relationships – about sexual passion and, by contrast, the calmer yet often complex flow of ongoing relationships. It focuses on the decline into staleness of the relationship between Craig and Paul, two men who have been together for ten years. Craig gets a jump start from an unexpected affair, and finds himself forced to analyse the relationship he has had with Paul. This brings tensions to the lives of all three characters, who face questions about the meaning of gay relationships, and what they can learn from the lives of other people they meet.
From Freyberg also examines many broader themes about being gay in a heterosexual world – the environment of legal and social prejudice in which both Craig and Paul grew up, the more liberal attitudes they subsequently experience, the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic, Craig’s longstanding involvement in the Presbyterian Church, and the relationships of each of the central characters with their own biological family members.