Our Evenings by Hollinghurst, Alan

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<p><b>The best novel that&rsquo;s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It&rsquo;s funny but desperately moving too &ndash; <i>The Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of <i>The Line of Beauty,</i> brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man&rsquo;s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.</b><br><br>Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles&rsquo; envy and violence.<br><br>As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys&rsquo; careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.<br><br><i>Our Evenings</i> is Dave Win&rsquo;s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.</p>