Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

Set in late-1960s London, this unsettling, intimate story follows a solitary, obsessively orderly furrier whose life is shaken by a recurring dream of a beautiful dead youth. When a new young worker enters his orbit, the dream bleeds into waking life, igniting a dangerous fixation. As desire collides with repression, his rigid routines unravel, drawing both men toward a tense reckoning with secrecy, fear, and the perilous edges of longing.