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?
