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PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571397471
RRP: £12.99
PAGES: 160
PUBLICATION DATE:
October 9, 2025
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On Friendship
By Andrew O'Hagan
From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.
If we are lucky in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean faces; they will come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life; some will span decades, and some will be only fleeting. But the thing they will all have in common is that life is not only unimaginable – but unimagined – without them.
In these gorgeous personal reflections, Andrew O’Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry, memory and history, illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together, and how our lives are all the better because we do.
Andrew O’Hagan’s novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024
Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O’Hagan is one of this generation’s most exciting and serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times and was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.