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'The best novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It's funny but desperately moving too' - The Sunday Times

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, heartbreaking but wickedly funny portrait of England spanning six decades from…

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1 author picked Our Evenings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Alan Hollinghurst always delivers top-notch highbrow fiction; the only fault with this book would be that the jumps in time in each section - sometimes several decades - left subsequent chapters a little baffling

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