{"product_id":"mayflies-book-andrew-o-hagan-9780771068119","title":"Mayflies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMayflies\u003c\/i\u003e 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?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49949079503121,"sku":"CIN0771068115G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50555543748881,"sku":"GOR013418450","price":19.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007047008529,"sku":"NIN9780771068119","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51120967155985,"sku":"CIN0771068115VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0771068115.jpg?v=1751011097","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/mayflies-book-andrew-o-hagan-9780771068119","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}