Our Evenings

In Alan Hollingurst’s stunning new novel the author tells the story of post war England through the life of a single man. At the opening of the novel we meet Dave Win, aged fourteen, spending the weekend at the home of the family who sponsors his scholarship to the nearby boarding school. This encounter first exposes Dave to new notions of privilege and status. And, as his life spools out from here and he enters university and then the theatre world we see the nature of a changing England through his eyes. Our Evenings is a companion novel to Alan Hollinghurst's devastating The Line of Beauty. It is a tender, funny, beautiful novel that delineates ideas of race and class, love and loss from a contemporary master of the English novel.