Evenings and Weekends

當夏日高溫席捲倫敦，四個人的人生也走到轉折點。Maggie懷孕、沒錢，正考慮回到她拚命逃離的故鄉；男友Ed心中藏著難以啟齒的過去；Phil一邊痛恨日復一日的工作，一邊愛上已經有伴的室友；而他的母親Rosaleen，則帶著一個改變一切的消息踏上旅程。這個週末，他們將在城市的熱浪中相遇、碰撞，重新思考愛、家庭與人生的模樣。

本書以充滿溫度的筆觸描繪現代都市生活的疏離與親密，《華盛頓郵報》評論：「為年輕世代寫下真摯又深刻的人際之書」，Eileen Myles則說：「這是一封寫給城市、人群與失落的情書，聰明、動人，我讀完後流下了眼淚。」

"This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles

"Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections." --The Washington Post

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.

Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It's June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city's 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 harboring 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. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to begin...

Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Ois璯 McKenna's debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there.