When We Were Rich
By Tim Lott

The brilliant new novel from the author ofand The Last Summer of the Water Strider A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity.'and Sarah Hughes, i paper What a terrific novel - wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining - I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what's not to like'and Deborah MoggachMillenniumand Eveand and six people gather on a London rooftop.and Recentlyand married, Frankie Blue watches with his wife, Veronica, as the sky above the Thames explodes into a kaleidoscope of light. His childhood companion, Colin, ineptly flirts with Roxy, an unlikely first date, while another old friend, Nodge, newly out', hides his insecurities from his waspish boyfriend.and New Labour are at their zenith.and The economy booms, awash with cheap credit.and The arrival of theand smartphone heralds the sudden and vast expansion of social media.and Mass immigration from Eastern Europe leave many unsettled while religious extremism threatens violent conflict.and An estate agent in a property boom, Frankie is focused simply on getting rich. But can he survive the coming crash? And what will becomeand and of his friends - andand his marriage - as they are scoured by the winds of change?and When We Were Richand finds the characters introduced inand Tim Lott'sand award-winningand 1999 debut,and White City Blue,and struggling to make sense of a new era.and Sad, shocking and often hilarious, it is anand acutely observedand novel of all our lives, set during what was for some a golden time - and for others a nightmare, from which we are yet to wake up. Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this book'and Sadie Jones Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author'and Jonathan CoePraise forand The Last Summer of the Water Strider:'I was very moved byand The Last Summer of the Water Strider, which is bothand exquisitely specificand to time and place andand universal in its examination of humanity, griefand and the bizarre prisons that people build for themselves - and one another.and Funny, fascinating, mysterious and provocative'and Sadie Jones, author ofand The Outcast'Great storytelling and superb characterisation.and Very few writers can evoke quintessential Englishness in its myriad forms like Tim Lott. I loved it'and Irvine Welsh'Lott is excellentand when it comes to the psychology of a grieving adolescent'and Observer