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Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst
Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
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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 Dave Win’s own account of his 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.

©2024 Alan Hollinghurst (P)2024 Macmillan Australia Audio Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction England Funny
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Despite the archness it’s a fine novel, beautifully read. The longer it goes the better it is. Hollinghurst is a master but not at his inestimable best. Still, it has many incisive charms.

The wood from the twees

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Hollingsworth’s moving prose captures the life story of David Winn, from Britain’s racially-charged 50s to the COVID outbreak of 2019, revealed in ever deeper forensic layers, navigating love, loss and what we really know (or don’t) about ourselves and those we love the most.

Beautiful, moving, devastating.

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A delight from start to finish. An amazing insight into British gay life in the 2nd half of the C20th. Fantastic writing excellent narration. An absolute joy.

Beautiful

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A lovely story that touched me at various times. I was frustrated at times by the segues but once finished, I understood to a certain extent why. Would recommend.

The lovely detail spelled out

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Great performance and a wonderful story. This book weaves through the times and life of our protagonist and warns of a bleak future for us all. Uplifting and worrying in parts it’s unmissable.

Another stunning tale from the master

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A superb unfolding story beautifully narrated 🙏 I was moved and found the story resonating on so many levels.

Fabulous

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Beautiful story that has been beautifully read, so divine to listen to. I’m glad I chose to listen over reading the physical.

Stunning listen

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A very beautiful novel. i loved living with these characters for 16 hours. i am totally done in by the end.

Sublime...

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The characters leap off the (digital) page, superb narration which perfectly brought the text to life

Storytelling at its best

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Beautifully written and beautifully narrated.
Character development and attention to detail is absorbing.
An impressive author.

Beautiful

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