Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY
Written by Michael Pedersen
Narrated by Michael Pedersen
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.'
STEPHEN FRY
'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.'
JACKIE KAY
'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.'
ANDREW O'HAGAN
'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.'
IAN RANKIN
Friendships might just be the greatest love affairs of our lives . . .
In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.
'Boy Friends sees Pedersen illuminate these companions with a poet's eye, a comedian's timing - and a lover's care.'
OBSERVER
'Written with enough electricity that it seems to jolt off the page . . . Boy Friends opens up conversations about . . . the brunt of suicide, the circumstances of certain types of Scottish masculinity and where friendships fit into that.'
SUNDAY TIMES
Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen has published two successful chapbooks and an acclaimed debut collection Play with Me (Polygon, 2013). His second collection, Oyster, surfaced in 2017 and was illustrated by – and performed as a live show with – Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison. Pedersen was: named a ‘Canongate Future 40’; a finalist in the 2018 Writer of the Year at the Herald Scottish Culture Awards; awarded the John Mather Trust Rising Star of Literature Award 2014; and won the 2015 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship – travelling to Grez-sur-Loing in France. Pedersen also co-runs and co-founded Neu! Reekie! – a prize winning arts collective, known for producing cutting-edge shows all over the globe and hosting take-overs for National Galleries, National Museums and major festivals.
Related to Boy Friends
Related audiobooks
The Whale Tattoo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlaces I've Taken My Body Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Eagle and the Cockerel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Boys Don't Cry: 'I can't remember ever reading something so moving.' Marian Keyes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Your Show: 'The football novel is back.' The Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Connection: 'Powerful' MATT HAIG Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ginger and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salt Lick: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vertigo: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Address Book: Hope lives here Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI'm a Box Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Ghost Factory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Keeping the House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Wonder Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5little scratch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Raven Smith’s Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wild Fires Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alligator and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gunflower Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Between You and Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unexhausted Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Danny Boy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetween a Wolf and a Dog Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Personal Memoirs For You
I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Counting the Cost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wishful Drinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pageboy: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Lucy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related categories
Reviews for Boy Friends
9 ratings0 reviews