Our Evenings

The Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst has written a dark, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny portrait of England spanning six decades from 1962 to the present day. Our Evenings is the story of Dave Win's 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: Paperback / softback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 24 July 2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

The best novel about contemporary Britain in the past ten years is "Our Evenings" by Alan Hollinghurst. It is a dark, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny portrait of England spanning six decades from 1962 to the present day. The story follows Dave Win, a thirteen-year-old boy who 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 against convention and discrimination, and 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. Then, a late-life affair that 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.

Weight: 340g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447208242