ABOUT
THE BOOK

England, 1962. Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the Hadlows, sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend will open up heady new possibilities for Dave, even as it exposes him to the envy of the Hadlows’ son Giles. Later a gifted actor struggling against discrimination, Dave finds himself unable to ever fully escape Giles, an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.

The story of one man’s life over half a century, ‘Our Evenings’ is a portrait of modern England’s fraught and sometimes violent relationship to race, class and sexuality.