'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'Intoxicating.' Irish Times 'Electric and intimate' Guardian 'The ultimate summer read' Stylist Summer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It's June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city's parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She's 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she's wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie's best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there's a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there's Rosaleen, Phil's mother, who's tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She's just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. It's the hottest summer on record and the weekend is about to begin... One of the hottest debuts of 2024, as featured in GUARDIAN, GQ, ESQUIRE, THE BOOKSELLER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, THE SKINNY, HERO MAGAZINE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'Intoxicating.' Irish Times 'Electric and intimate' Guardian 'The ultimate summer read' Stylist Summer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It's June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city's parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She's 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she's wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie's best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there's a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there's Rosaleen, Phil's mother, who's tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She's just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. It's the hottest summer on record and the weekend is about to begin... One of the hottest debuts of 2024, as featured in GUARDIAN, GQ, ESQUIRE, THE BOOKSELLER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, THE SKINNY, HERO MAGAZINE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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Rezension von AnnaHad me at „Für Fans von Sally Rooney“. Reicht aber leider nicht ran. Ich will es lieben, denn der Vibe ist da: London, die klebrige Hitze, 2019-pre-Covid, die Ängste, Geldsorgen und Unsicherheiten von Anfang 30-Jährigen. Aber: Es waren mir etwas zu viele Charaktere, in deren Leben man sehr unvermittelt geworfen wird. Die Perspektiven wechseln schnell, doch irgendwie konnte sich mein Herz für keine Figur so richtig erwärmen. Man schaut zu, bleibt aber emotional auf Distanz. Mir fehlt vor allem etwas auf sprachlicher Ebene. Das Buch will viel: Drama um die Miskommunikation der Figuren erzeugen, über Queerness, Heteronormativität, Klasse und Religion sprechen. Es fühlt am Ende aber an Tiefe. Gerade am Ende, als alles extrem schnell abgehandelt wird - aber vage bleibt.
Rezension von MajaLoved this book. The story takes place on just one weekend in London and follows along multiple protagonists and their lives. The way the author describes people and their complex feelings, identities and the communication and relationships between the characters is very authentic. You get a deep look especially in feelings of queer identities and in big city life. I would recommend it to read it as an summer read:))
Rezension von EniThis book felt like a memory of the stickiness of a bubble gum on the sole of a shoe on a hot day. And I mean this in the best possible way. I loved it
Rezension von coffee.mit.laraIt was so beautifully written that I couldn't put it down, and now it's finished, I'm quite sad. I already miss the characters, who were described so beautifully, and I felt like I was part of their inner voice.
Rezension von CelliStunning. Hätte ich genug Zeit gehabt, hätte ich es am Stück zu Ende gelesen. Sehr schöner Schreibstil. Ich mochte wie organisch sich der Wechsel zwischen den Perspektiven angefühlt hat und dass nicht alle Protagonistinnen jung und hetero waren. Spannende Charaktere und irgendwie auch ein passendes Ende. Mochte es sehr, große Empfehlung.