I‘ll Never Be Young Again

The tumult of living, the glory and the pain. The precious intimacy of little things. I wanted so much and so much. Moments away from jumping into the swirling Thames, Dick is saved by a passing stranger with a grin, a quip and a cigarette. With his self-assurance and easy charm - and his honesty about having killed a man - Jake has a strange magnetism, and the two men plunge into a passionate friendship. Escaping the oppressive shadow of his father, a famous poet, Dick joins Jake on a ship to Norway. As they adventure through Europe, Dick tries on new versions of himself - until he washes up in bohemian Paris, where he resolves to pursue his artistic dreams. But as Jake always warned, no one can stay young forever . . . ‘One of the last century‘s most original literary talents‘ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Amazingly vivid‘ SATURDAY REVIEW ‘One of the great monologists in twentieth-century fiction‘ ELAINE DUNDY