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Evenings and Weekends: ‘Zadie Smith-esque in its kaleidoscope of London’ Niamh Campbell
Oisín McKenna
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| 'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE
'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES
'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS
'Electric and intimate' Guardian
'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies
'Intoxicating' Irish Times
Set across two scorching hot days in the feverish capital, Evenings and Weekends is a vivid portrait of a city and its inhabitants that announces the arrival of a vital new literary talent.
This city stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It’s June 2019 in London and everyone has converged on the parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.
Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own.
Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him.
As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record and the weekend is about to begin… |
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Language: English
Hardcover:
ISBN-10: 9780008604172
ISBN-13: 9780008604172
Genre: Social Sciences
Size: 10.2 cm x 17 cm
Shipping Weight: 200 grams
Condition: New
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