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'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton
Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize
Shortlisted for the Portico Prize
A Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year
'Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.' Tracey Thorn
'Life-enhancing.' Scotsman
'Unforgettable.' Cólm Toibín
'Spectacular.' Books of the Year, Spectator
'An incredible book . . . about men and how important friendship can be to men.' Douglas Stuart
'My god this is gorgeous. Wild, wise, wonderful . . . Absolutely brilliant.' Russell T Davies
Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.
In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently.
Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.
About the author
Andrew O'Hagan is one of this generation's most exciting and serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times and was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Summary
Leaves you smiling and crying at once.'????? 'Exquisitely written and made me exhale with a big sigh and just sit still, thinking deeply, when I closed the book at the end.'????? 'An uplifting and life-affirming read.'????? 'This book will change your life and challenge your values.
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One of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written . . . alert to time, place and the ordinary human . . Wise, poetic . . . I adored this book. Carol Ann Duffy
