Mayflies

- Authors
- O'Hagan, Andrew
- Publisher
- Faber Faber
- Tags
- contemporary
- Date
- 2020-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.40 MB
- Lang
- en
******* ' *Mayflies* is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends... I adored this book.' *Carol Ann Duffy* *****
**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.