A review by claire_fuller_writer
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

4.0

I've read all Hollinghurst's novels and I was delighted to receive a proof of this from the publisher. He is such an exceptional writer of character and place and time. I can sink into his novels and just know I'm in safe hands. Our Evenings definitely fits neatly alongside Hollinghurst's other novels: it's about a gay young man navigating his way through private education and life, but in this case the main character, David is mixed race and he is at his expensive school due to his benefactors, the Hadlows. We are reading David's memoir of boarding school, experimental theatre, love affairs, acting career, and his close relationship with his lesbian mother (I love how she is written), and there is a twist at the end that I didn't see coming. Not my favourite, but I loved it.