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Author: Goddard, Keiran

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

June 2025 Book Club choice.  This book can be delivered at the May 2025 book club or collected from the shop.  £7.99 Book Club Price.  If you would like your book to be posted please email us for a postage cost

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Published on 6 February 2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages
127 x 198 x 20 | 206g

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they’d do with their lives.

Now they are thirty, and only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn’t stop him clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom, while Conor has a baby on the way and a business plan he hopes will change everything. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, but even they are rocked when an old secret opens up new wounds …