Mayflies

'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton

Andrew O'Hagan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:3rd Sep '20

£14.99

Available to order, but very limited on stock - if we have issues obtaining a copy, we will let you know.

Mayflies cover

Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize

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'Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends... I adored this book.' Carol Ann Duffy ***


'A beautiful ode to lost youth and male friendship written by one of our sharpest observers of modern masculinity.' Douglas Stuart

'A life-enhancing novel. It will stay with you and you will want to read it again.' Alan Massie, Scotsman

'A joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship.' John Self, The Times

A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.

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

In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news.

Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

ISBN: 9780571273683

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 20mm

Weight: 398g

288 pages

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