The Wolfenden Report was published in September 1957. Ed was in the sitting room at Grena Road when the news came. He was not alone—Joan was there, and Patrick Phillips, and two men from the reform circle whose names Ed knew but whose faces he always had trouble remembering. They had been waiting for months, ever since the Committee had finished its hearings, ever since Ed had written speech after speech for Lord Arran and watched them delivered in the House of Lords to almost no visible effect...