
- Publisher:
- FABER & FABER
- Year of publication:
- 2021
- Subject:
- Contemporary fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-27371-3
- Pages:
- 277
MAYFLIES
ANDREW O'HAGAN
"Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news. Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love."--Provided by publisher.