{"product_id":"9780771068119","title":"Mayflies A Novel","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\u003eEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003eThirty 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":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67610856423497,"sku":null,"price":11.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/14266213482462.jpg?v=1791143222","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/9780771068119","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}