Mayflies

An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life death and 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--news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. Mayflies is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy?