Mayflies
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Andrew O'Hagan
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Andrew O'Hagan
About this listen
'An immensely engaging writer: wry and witty, and insightful.' Sunday Times
'A vivid and meticulous writer.' Observer
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary 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 towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre 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.
Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.
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- Miss C Perry
- 12-05-22
Honest and open, funny and sad.
What a wonderful story of youth, emotions and inspirations, enduring friendship and love all so beautiful observed with humour and sadness.
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- Londongayle
- 10-08-22
Amazing story
I loved the beginning of this book, the narration, the characters and the story. I struggled with Manchester and would have given up had it not been for the reviews. I’m so pleased I persevered, the last part of the book was just amazing. The story really shows the dilemmas that people face, and particularly for the family around them.
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- west barn chick
- 16-01-23
Male friendship story tested by death and female loyalties
I wanted to read this after feeling the tv version was thin and cursory. So glad I did as the book conveys the magic of a weekend in 1980s Manchester for the boys becoming men and some of the real challenges of opting for euthanasia when family is against end of life. I loved the details of literature, music, film and even perfume that takes you to the heart of the eras and characters.
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- robbie
- 07-03-21
Just brilliant
Being a thinker, Mayflies defo makes you consider...
Some people are easy to listen to, this makes Mayflies an audible joy!
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- Adam MOORE
- 20-02-21
Outstanding.
Finished this in a day and a half. The author/narrator does an amazing job and adds real depth.
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- Waggy From Derby
- 15-01-21
a special friendship - till death do us part
a live worth living,. best three things about this book Tully's love for Noodles, music and life
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- Jo
- 31-12-22
beautiful
so moving and beautifully written. narration top class. so evocative of a time and place.
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- Mrs White
- 01-01-22
Being Scottish not obligatory. Beautifully written.
If you are of a certain age, arriving in your mid teens at the front end of the 1980s; if you swaggered and spat as true socialism heaved its last on the picket lines and the wrong side of Thatcherism, if you despised the neon garish pop sell-off, and its capitalistic grab, all the while resisting your YTS future by gripping with both hands a free higher education in some Scottish university or college, this book, full of Peel bands, poignancy, laddish bluster, and classic 70s film machismo littering the pages like madeleines, will delight. Not quite a Bildungsroman, but be ready to be continually disarmed by the honesty and humour expressed as the main character deciphers his life long friendship with Tully Dawson.
Anyone who emerged from the late 20th century all too aware of what had been lost both politically and societally will be dazzled. Being Scottish not obligatory. Beautifully written.
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- Sian C
- 17-09-21
A stunning book
Some parts of this book were hard to listen to but only because the loss and grief written about was so raw and beautifully written. It is the best book I've read about friendship. I finished it and went straight back to the beginning.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-04-24
Moving story of love, life and friendship
What a beautifully written story and narrated by the only person I think could do it justice, the writer himself.. I laughed, I cried, and was gripped by the characters from page 1 to the last. My first Andrew O’Hagan read, I will definitely be reading more.
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