I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Five friends grew up together, but only one has made it out of the estate. Oli is fading, Conor has a baby on the way, and Patrick and Shiv are in love. I See Buildings Fall like Lightning explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship and the true limits of hope and forgiveness.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 08 February 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes.

Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they'd do with their lives.

Now they are thirty, and only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn't stop him clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom, while Conor has a baby on the way and a business plan he hopes will change everything. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, but even they are rocked when an old secret opens up new wounds.

Bold, ambitious and stylistically striking, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning asks what happens when all the things we expect from our lives end up... not happening. It lays bare the ways that place and circumstance shape us, explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship, and examines the true limits of hope and forgiveness.

Weight: 386g
Dimension: 222 x 145 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408717813