Snow

I kept thinking that the author wasn't going to go for the obvious answer; surely he was more clever than that? But no, it was that obvious.

Curious to know if the use of the words such as queer or gay (plus a few others) were intended to be foreshadowing, of a sort. There's even a reference to Oscar Wilde. I do have some qualms, if they were intended, as pedophilia and homosexuality are not at all the same thing.