 But it was his second novel Charlie, published in 2010, that gained him international attention, after he won the Terenci Moix Prize for Lesbian and Gay fiction.The story was loosely based on a young student of Cruz's, Charlie Aldridge, from his days as a schoolmaster at the City of London School in the capital.He is now working on his third novel, with the working title Celia's Legacy which is due for publication in 2022, and an autobiographical chronicle provisionally entitled Up and Out in Barcelona and London.