My Friends : From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE RETURN

JANUARY BOOKCLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH.
Join the author at our Bookclub Meeting on Monday 12th February.

‘The first Booker contender of 2024… a deeply touching, beautifully composed book’ Sunday Times

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide – from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURNKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy.

When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed. Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.

Hisham is one of our greatest writers, how lucky we are to be in his midst.’ MAAZA MENGISTE, author of THE SHADOW KING