Our Evenings

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from a Booker Prize-winning Author

De: Alan Hollinghurst

Narrado por: Prasanna Puwanarajah

A ‘Book of the Year’ for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the I

'I must confess my devotion immediately: I read every word this man writes. I wait for every new novel and the wait has been worth it: this is gorgeous. I simply love the way this man writes' – Russell T. Davies, writer and creator of It's A Sin

'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

Featured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime'

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 our age.

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence.

As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.

Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win’s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.

Our Evenings entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w/b 07-10-24.

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The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too

The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time

A triumph . . . 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

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 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)

A 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 Crosses)

This 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

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

Moments of extraordinary beauty and set pieces as powerful as anything Hollinghurst has written

A moving novel, written with beautiful poise and a wonderful grasp of life’s detail that singles Hollinghurst’s voice out. He writes of male concerns and love with true subtlety and feeling

Our Evenings cements Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain’s best novelists . . . Written in sentences that are often arch and always effortless, it’s a remarkable, richly humane novel

Our Evenings is a work of such expansive, affecting brilliance and is a must for the Booker Prize next year . . . There is richness aplenty on these pages: acute social comedy, potent set pieces, some mesmerisingly beautiful distillations of atmosphere and emotion. It’s all woven masterfully into an intimate first-person meditation on modern England . . . A work of such expansive, affecting brilliance

A very credible story beautifully read and interpreted

It felt very much a credible biography and commentary on life in the 1950s with all the historical nuances of prejudice both racial and gay.