{"product_id":"our-evenings","title":"Our Evenings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It's funny but desperately moving too' -and The Sunday TimesAlan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author ofand The Line of Beauty,and brings us a dark, heartbreaking but wickedly funny portrait of England spanning six decades from 1962 to the present day. 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.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' envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys' careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling against convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Eveningsand is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win's life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company. Then, a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.Our Eveningsand entered the Sunday Times Fiction Hardback chart at #9 w\/b 07-10-24.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Hollinghurst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213278638140,"sku":"9781447208242","price":2595.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9781447208242_201.jpg?v=1776709256","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/our-evenings","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}