{"product_id":"mayflies-a-stunning-novel-graham-norton","title":"Mayflies: 'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton","description":"Review\n\nOne of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written . . . alert to time, place and the ordinary human . . Wise, poetic . . . I adored this book. -- Carol Ann Duffy\n\nA joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship. ― The Times\n\nStarts as a celebration of wild youth and music but then turns into something tender and heartbreaking about friendship and time. I loved it. -- David Nicholls\n\nA tight, delicate and soulful novel about the power of enduring friendship and making the best of your life no matter what. ― Sunday Times\n\nThe book which has meant most to me this year . . . About the really important things: the transformative power of music and good times, friendship, love and loss. -- John Lanchester ― Evening Standard 'Books of the Year'\n\nIt's so beautiful . . . The love between friends, between men, is so rarely celebrated. It's gorgeous. ― Damian Barr\n\nI was pretty much in love with its main character by page four, and I was confident it would be one of my books of the year by about page ten. -- Daniel Hahn ― Spectator 'Books of the Year'\n\nFew novelists could have mined such riches from a study of male friendship . . . A plangent masterpiece. ― Mail on Sunday\n\nO'Hagan writes on youth and experience with wit and poignancy - and a terrific soundtrack. ― Financial Times 'Books of the Year'\n\nAn intelligent and beautifully written portrait of being young in the 1980s and what makes male friendships tick. ― The Times 'Books of the Year'\n\nOn almost every page there is an arresting sentence or idea . . . O'Hagan's achievement is . . . to fill the pages with roaring life, right up to the last kick of the ball. ― Herald\n\nProduct Description\n\n'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton\n\nWinner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize\nShortlisted for the Portico Prize\n\nA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year\n\n'Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.' Tracey Thorn\n\n'Life-enhancing.' Scotsman\n\n'Unforgettable.' Cólm Toibín\n\n'Spectacular.' Books of the Year, Spectator\n\n'An incredible book . . . about men and how important friendship can be to men.' Douglas Stuart\n\n'My god this is gorgeous. Wild, wise, wonderful . . . Absolutely brilliant.' Russell T Davies\n\nEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\n\nIn the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently.\n\nThirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.\n\nBook Description\n\nA heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nIn the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently.\n\nThirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nAndrew O'Hagan is one of his generation's most exciting and serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times and was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters. His most recent novel is The Illuminations (2015).","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40388260790357,"sku":"9780571273713N","price":5.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/e9736959-31f5-45b8-ac78-25369f341bb8.jpg?v=1666252367","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/mayflies-a-stunning-novel-graham-norton","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}