Our Evenings

A ''Book of the Year'' for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the I Featured on Radio 4''s ''Book at Bedtime'' ''The best novel that''s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It''s funny but desperately moving too'' - The Sunday Times Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man''s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles'' envy and violence. As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys'' careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician. Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win''s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security. Our Evenings entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w/b 07-10-24.

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The best novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It's funny but desperately moving too The Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Alan Hollinghurst, Hollinghurst Alan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 19.08.2025
• EAN: 9781447208242
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-0824-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); England, FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, 20th Century, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary