{"product_id":"9781447208235-our-evenings","title":"Our Evenings","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA stunning portrait of modern England from one of Britain's finest novelists and the winner of the David Cohen Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ‘Book of the Year’ for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eIt's A Sin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too' – \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDave 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Evenings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003csub\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Evenings\u003c\/i\u003e entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w\/b 07-10-24.\u003c\/sub\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41608234958945,"sku":"9781447208235","price":19.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30235068.jpg?v=1727759865","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447208235-our-evenings","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}