Mayflies

An incredible lifetime connection is chronicled in this devastating story by internationally acclaimed novelist Andrew O'Hagan.

Everybody has a buddy who defines their life, a Tully Dawson.

A beautiful relationship built on music, films, and the rebel spirit is ignited by James and Tully in a tiny Scottish village during the summer of 1986. After school is out and they have their fathers' closed world ahead of them, they go for the pinnacle of their childhood: a fantastic weekend in Manchester, the heart of everything that motivates them in working-class Britain. There, a promise to approach life differently is made in front of the finest soundtrack ever recorded. Half a lifetime later, after thirty years, the phone rings. Tully is updating.

Mayflies is a tribute to both the common sorrow and the exhilaration of childhood. It learns the pleasure and the price of love and bids a heartfelt farewell to an old marriage.