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Dave Win's life, traced from schooldays into old age, gives Alan Hollinghurst a way to write several decades of English social change. The novel follows an actor of mixed heritage through a scholarship, theatre work, love and the slow shifts in class and politics around him. Hollinghurst writes long scenes with close attention to speech and setting, and the emotional weight accumulates quietly instead of arriving through sudden turns of plot. Key features at a glance: • A life story spanning decades of modern English history • Themes of class, race, ambition and where a person belongs • Theatre and performance threaded through the narrative • Prose from a Booker Prize-winning British novelist Suited to readers of literary fiction, book clubs and anyone following contemporary British novels, stocked by Boipoka.