Andrew O'Hagan

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

Mayflies

Emma Hak-Kovacs

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It was always a struggle to reach the future, I said.

 "It's hard to think about, I said, but it's coming closer.’’

 ‘'All the important things are hard to think about.’’

Helen 

They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again,

What we had that day was our story. We didn't have the other bit, the future, and we had no way of knowing what that would be like. Perhaps it would change our memory of all this, or perhaps it would draw from it, nobody knew. But I'm sure Ifelt the story of that hall and how we reached it would never vanish.

I think it was a moment of pure honesty, and maybe we were adults for the first time, sitting by that canal in perfect daylight under the moving cranes.

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