Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst's seventh novel, Our Evenings, is a dark, luminous, and wickedly funny portrait of modern England. It explores race and class, theatre and sexuality, love, and violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Dave Win and Giles are two boys who go to stay with the sponsors of their scholarship at a local boarding school, and their lives unfold over the next half-century. Dave is a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, while Giles is an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician. Our Evenings is Dave's own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, and a late-life affair that transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and security.

Format: Hardback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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 page – The Telegraph 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-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 Dave Win's own account of his 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.

Weight: 732g
Dimension: 163 x 244 x 45 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447208235