Our Evenings

Praise

Praise for Our Evenings

“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 end.”—Tash Aw

“Our Evenings is marked by a sharp eye, a tender sensibility, and an unflagging wit. I never wanted it to end.”—Emma Donoghue, author of The Pull of the Stars and Room

“This sublime novel—classic Hollinghurst in everything but point of view—could not be timelier.”—Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk

“Booker winner Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) traces the divisions of post-Brexit London in this elegant tale of two men’s divergent paths across decades. . . . Hollinghurst proves once more to be a master of emotive prose. It’s a tour de force.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Hollinghurst continues to amaze and delight, hitting both the most delicate grace notes and portentous chords perfectly . . . and then suddenly there’s an ending you will likely find yourself reading several times so you can fully take in its subtlety, power, and emotion.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review


Praise for Alan Hollinghurst

“Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today.”—The Guardian

“Hollinghurst knows that the present is never as enlightened as it likes to think it is, nor the past quite as backward. . . . [His genius] has been to speak in a voice steeped in English heritage about a subculture that England’s rigid and stratified society long refused to acknowledge, let alone accept.”—Giles Harvey, The New York Times

“[Hollinghurst has] a truly Jamesian fineness of perception. . . . [He is] one of the best novelists at work today.”—The Wall Street Journal

“One can’t get enough of Hollinghurst’s sentences.”—The Washington Post

“One of our most gifted writers.”—The Boston Globe