'A profound examination of friendship romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne One
summer's evening two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends now married and with
grown-up children their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has
to tell Davy and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to
be. Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in store but as two pints turns to three
then five and the men set out to revisit the haunts of their youth the ghosts of Dublin
entwine around them. Their first buoyant forays into adulthood the pubs the parties broken
hearts and bungled affairs as well as the memories of what eventually drove them apart. As the
two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night Love
offers up a delightfully comic yet moving portrait of the many forms love can take throughout
our lives.
