Our Evenings

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

The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our timeThe Guardian

With his seventh novel, Our Evenings, the Booker-winning writer proves that his talents as a keen noticer of the world have only deepened . . . Gems of observation and insight on every pageThe Telegraph

Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality and origins in a genteel English Home Counties setting. It is the story of a country undergoing great change, even if its people aren’t aware of it—the novel moves through time so beautifully that I felt such a sense of loss at the endTash Aw