Evenings and Weekends
- Author Oisín McKenna
- Narrator Isabel Adomakoh Young
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 9 May 2024
- Run Time 9 hours and 26 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
'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
'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS
'Electric and intimate' Guardian
'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies
'Intoxicating' Irish Times
London, June 2019. Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the home 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 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 already has a boyfriend. 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 in a city on the brink of political upheaval, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record, and the weekend is about to begin.
What readers are saying…
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Critics Review
'A gorgeous, kaleidoscopic vision of London written in shimmering prose I felt compelled to underline. I was deeply moved by its beauty and humanity.u2019 Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
n'A masterpiece. This searing tale of love, sex and class will resonate for generations to come' Owen Jones
n'Electric and intimate. Bottles the exhilaration of youthful desire and possibility, as well as the accompanying instability' Guardian
nu2018Iu2019ve never seen London so vividly rendered: grubby, sexy, suffocating. I couldnu2019t put it down. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliantu2019 Shon Faye
n'Full of rich observations and emotional detail. A complex love letter to the city.' Vogue
nu2018A beautiful, wise book. Impossibly, ineffably beautiful.u2019 Russell T Davies
n'Compelling, brilliant, hypnotic. An impressive debut, pulsating with energy, humour and erotic charge.' Irish Times
nu2018I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. It made me choke up not from tragedy but from the sheer humanity of it' Annie Lord
n'The only beach (or back garden) read for those in the know' Sunday Times Magazine
n'A book you itch to return to' Eva Wiseman, Guardian
n'The book of the summer' Dazed
n'McKennau2019s evocative prose paints a love letter to London in all its grimy gloryu2019 Service 95
n'Tender and addictive. Perfect summer reading.' i Paper
n'Heartfelt, vivid and sexy' London Standard
nu2018A love letter to cities and people and heartbreaks. It made me cryu2019 Eileen Myles
nu2018Astonishing. A magnificent readu2019 Russell Tovey
n'The book insiders will be passing on to everyone this summer' Stylist
nu2018Sexy, clever and shockingly alive. I have never read a book that captures what London feels like so compellinglyu2019 Tomasz Jedrowski
n'The aching, swelling humanity of this book swallowed me whole' Saba Sams
n'Zadie Smith-esque in its kaleidoscope of London. Compassionate, intelligent, hilarious' Niamh Campbell
n'A novel brimming with life' Nicola Dinan
n'Stunning. Guaranteed to be one of the books of the summer' Hero
n'I was entirely consumed by it.u2019 Kate Young
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