17th June, 7.30pm - Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

Tuesday 17th June, 7:30pm

Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP

Backstory favourite Evenings and Weekends is now out in paperback, and to celebrate, we're bringing in Oisín McKenna. Evenings and Weekends spins together a cast of characters across a three day London heatwave. From love, sex and friendship to class and economic precarity, this is a vivid portrait of a contemporary, queer London and a brilliant debut novel. We can't wait to talk with Oisín all about it.

About the book: 

Set across two scorching hot days in the feverish capital, Evenings and Weekends is a vivid portrait of a city and its inhabitants that announces the arrival of a vital new literary talent. This city stops for no-one.

Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It’s June 2019 in London and everyone has converged on the parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie.

She’s 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own.

Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life.

She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record and the weekend is about to begin…

Tickets Available:

Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.)

Ticket & book  (RRP £9.99) - £20 (To collect on the night or in advance.)