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Mayflies

Andrew O’Hagan

A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.

409 in stock

£9.99£8.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571273713
Date Published
03.06.2021
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Summary

‘A stunning novel.’ Graham Norton

Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize
Shortlisted for the Portico Prize

GuardianSpectatorSunday TimesFinancial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year

‘Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.’ Tracey Thorn

‘Life-enhancing.’ Scotsman

‘Unforgettable.’ Cólm Toibín

‘Spectacular.’ Books of the Year, Spectator

‘An incredible book . . . about men and how important friendship can be to men.’ Douglas Stuart

‘My god this is gorgeous. Wild, wise, wonderful . . . Absolutely brilliant.’ Russell T Davies

Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.

In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently.

Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.

Critic Reviews

One of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written . . . alert to time, place and the ordinary human . . Wise, poetic . . . I adored this book.

Carol Ann Duffy
Critic Reviews

A joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship.

The Times
Critic Reviews

Starts as a celebration of wild youth and music but then turns into something tender and heartbreaking about friendship and time. I loved it.

David Nicholls
Critic Reviews

A tight, delicate and soulful novel about the power of enduring friendship and making the best of your life no matter what.

Sunday Times
Critic Reviews

The book which has meant most to me this year . . . About the really important things: the transformative power of music and good times, friendship, love and loss.

John Lanchester, Evening Standard 'Books of the Year'
Critic Reviews

It’s so beautiful . . . The love between friends, between men, is so rarely celebrated. It’s gorgeous.

Damian Barr
AndrewO'Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and he won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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