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 Featured on Radio 4's 'Book at
Bedtime' '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 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.
