Our Evenings
03 October 2024
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
03 October 2024
496 pages
9781447208235
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
A standing ovation for Our Evenings!Richard E. Grant, actor and star of Withnail and I and Saltburn
Our Evenings is marked by a sharp eye, a tender sensibility, and an unflagging wit. I never wanted it to end.Emma Donoghue
This sublime novel – classic Hollinghurst in everything but point of view – could not be timelierMendez, author of Rainbow Milk