Our Evenings
03 October 2024
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'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...
Details
03 October 2024
496 pages
9781447208235
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving tooThe Sunday Times
The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our timeThe Guardian
A triumph . . . With his seventh novel, Our Evenings, the Booker-winning writer proves that his talents as a keen noticer of the world have only deepened . . . Gems of observation and insight on every pageThe Telegraph
Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality and origins in a genteel English Home Counties setting. It is the story of a country undergoing great change, even if its people aren’t aware of it—the novel moves through time so beautifully that I felt such a sense of loss at the endTash Aw