When We Were Rich

‘A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity’ – Sarah Hughes, i paper‘What a terrific novel – wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining – I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what’s not to like’ – Deborah Moggach‘Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this book’ – Sadie Jones‘Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author’ – Jonathan Coe‘Lott delivers many hilarious and sad scenes of life in a long-term relationship. He also explores the poignancy and fragility of male friendships, in a manner reminiscent of Graham Swift’s Last Orders… [He is,] crucially, careful to linger over moral difficulty and vulnerability rather than evading it’ * TLS *‘Lott’s carefully observed period piece captures the mood of an era that now seems like a lost world’ * Daily Mail *

Tim Lott is the author of seven novels and a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, which won the PEN/J.R. Ackerley Prize. White City Blue won the Whitbread First Novel Award and his young adult book Fearless was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Book Award. Tim lives with his family in north-west London.

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