Description
A novel about friendship, memory, and the quiet moments that shape a life. Richly resonant, beautifully written, witty and heartfelt it is an ode to male friendship
Hey Man is the story of Ian and Tommy, whose rich and tender friendship stretches across three fateful decades.
Their story begins in 1989 when as an impressionable seventeen-year old, Ian, finds himself lodging with Tommy, a thirty-year old actor, in London. When they meet again in Dublin, fifteen years later, Ian has left behind a career in medicine to become Brother Eugene, a Benedictine monk, while Tommy is navigating fame, divorce and his familiar restlessness. The old spark is still there – but so are the questions: what they mean to each other and why does it still matter?
At Tommy’s sixtieth birthday, with illness casting its shadow, the truths long buried rise to the surface. Tender and devastating, Hey Man is a meditation on the mysteries of male friendship and the bonds that shape a life.
