Men in Love

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Like all his best work, Men in Love is propulsive, hilarious and bittersweet in equal measure, as wise on the curdling of intense teenage friendships as it is on the early, doomed attempts we embark on in our twenties to settle down and fall in love * GQ * The simple ease and joy with which he [Welsh] reinhabits these vivid characters makes this his paciest, funniest, most page-turning book in years * Scotsman * These characters remain alive on the page, more than 30 years on * Daily Mail * There's no slacking in either the pace or the energy of the prose. Chapters alternate the cacophonous voices of the four [Trainspotting crew members]... their words sing off the page... What Welsh does so brilliantly [is] mixing registers and revealing the unsuspected depths in his characters * Financial Times * Brilliant * Irish Sunday Mirror * The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me... It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive -- DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo (on Trainspotting) A new book by Irvine Welsh is always an event... No living author is as entertaining to read, or as skilled at capturing the ambivalence and beauty of male friendships * GQ, Best Books of 2025 * Expertly funny and tender * Irish Independent * The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent * Sunday Times (on Trainspotting) * So propulsive...about as much fun as you can have between two book covers * The Times (on Dead Men's Trousers) *