Join us in welcoming Booker Prize winner and celebrated novelist Alan Hollinghurst to Cambridge with his latest book, Our Evenings: a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. 

Our Evenings unfolds over half a century, following Dave Win’s account of his life as a boarding school scholar, his first love affairs, his experiences with an experimental theatre company, and a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security. However, the book also very movingly captures the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home.  

Both dark and luminous, deeply affecting and wickedly funny, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. 

In conversation with literary journalist and broadcaster Alex Clark.