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Mayflies

Written by: Andrew O'Hagan
Narrated by: Andrew O'Hagan
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An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.

Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.

In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films, and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush toward the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicenter of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently.

Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news - news that forces the lifelong friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. Mayflies is at once a finely tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amid tragedy?
©2021 Andrew O'Hagan (P)2021 Penguin Random House Canada
Coming of Age Friendship Genre Fiction
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What the critics say

"A beautiful ode to lost youth and male friendship written by one of our sharpest observers of modern masculinity." (Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain)

"Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written - wise, funny, poetic, alert to time, place and the ordinary human.... I adored this book." (Carol Ann Duffy)

"...tender, heartfelt." (The New York Times, New & Noteworthy)

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  • 2021-09-08

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This is an exquisite tribute to friendship among men. There are passages that are beautifully crafted and memorable.

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