Our Evenings
03 July 2025
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A ‘Book of the Year’ for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the I
Featured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime'
'The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too' – The Sunday Times
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author...
Details
03 July 2025
448 pages
9781447208242
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A standing ovation for Our Evenings!Richard E. Grant, actor and star of Withnail and I and Saltburn
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
Our Evenings is marked by a sharp eye, a tender sensibility, and an unflagging wit. I never wanted it to end.Emma Donoghue
This sublime novel – classic Hollinghurst in everything but point of view – could not be timelierMendez, author of Rainbow Milk