Evenings and Weekends: ‘Zadie Smith-esque in its kaleidoscope of London’ NIAMH CAMPBELL

di Oisín McKenna (Autore)

Isabel Adomakoh-Young (Narratore)

Fourth Estate, 2024

'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 'Electric and intimate' Guardian *'*The book of the summer’ Dazed and Confused 'Intoxicating' Irish Times Summer in London 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, and everyone has converged on the city’s 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… What readers are saying… 'I’ve had a week long book hangover. Read it!' ????? 'A book I will carry with me in my heart' ????? 'The best book I've read in recent years' ????? 'My life got just a bit richer from having read this book' ????? 'I absolutely loved it, every word' ????? Set against the backdrop of a sweltering London cityscape, EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS is a top-tier urban fiction that delves into the lives of its diverse characters. This new literary work by Oisín McKenna is a testament to the power of storytelling in capturing the essence of the LGBTQ+ community. HarperCollins 2024

• Autore: Oisín McKenna
• Narratore: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 09:16:17
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• EAN: 9780008604202

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