Our Evenings

The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too * The Sunday Times *The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time * The Guardian *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 *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 end – Tash AwA standing ovation for Our Evenings! – Richard E. Grant, actor and star of Withnail and I and SaltburnOur Evenings is marked by a sharp eye, a tender sensibility, and an unflagging wit. I never wanted it to end. – Emma DonoghueA deeply moving novel, sensitive and hilarious in equal measure. A marvel I would recommend to anyone – Paterson Joseph, actor and star of Peep Show and Noughts and CrossesThis sublime novel – classic Hollinghurst in everything but point of view – could not be timelier – Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk Hollinghurst proves once more to be a master of emotive prose. It’s a tour de force * Publishers Weekly *Luxuriously immersive, subtle and elegiac, [Our Evenings] traces the arc of a life to paint a picture of modern Britain and is shot through with love, longing and delicious comedy * The Bookseller *

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels: The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, The Sparsholt Affair, and Our Evenings. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.