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Boy Friends
- Narrated by: Michael Pedersen
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.
'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.'
STEPHEN FRY
'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.'
JACKIE KAY
'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.'
ANDREW O'HAGAN
'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.'
IAN RANKIN
Friendships might just be the greatest love affairs of our lives . . .
In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.
'Boy Friends sees Pedersen illuminate these companions with a poet's eye, a comedian's timing - and a lover's care.'
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'Written with enough electricity that it seems to jolt off the page . . . Boy Friends opens up conversations about . . . the brunt of suicide, the circumstances of certain types of Scottish masculinity and where friendships fit into that.'
SUNDAY TIMES
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- Mairiboo
- 02-05-23
A beautiful book
Whilst listening to Michael reading this marvellously honest journey through friendship, growth, and loss, I have cried, laughed, and now am left with a feeling of loss on completion. He manages to describe his feelings so elequantly. Listening allowed me to understand better emotions I have felt but could never verbalise.
You simply have to read this book. Or listen to Michael reading it to you, which I particularly loved.
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- Harriet
- 05-02-23
Beautiful
My words won't do this book justice but simply put this is BEAUTIFUL. Michael is an excellent author and I'm really in awe of him penning this wonderful masterpiece, inevitably his narration is equally just as wonderful.
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- Nomi
- 20-08-22
a very beautiful book about friendship
Michael Pederson writes with such honesty and emotional intelligence I defy anyone to not connect with this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-22
Love in the truest form
Just finished reading this.
It’s an amazingly beautifully written, heartbreaking, funny, honest, poetic and the truest of love letters to a best friend (and all Boy Friends).
If you read just one book that I recommend - I hope it’s this one. 💜
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- Jade Metcalfe
- 16-06-24
An emotional rollercoaster!
I listened to this book as my favourite artist is Scott Hutchison, it made me laugh, it made me cry and I couldn’t wait to get stuck back into it when I wasn’t listening! A great insight by Michael I will certainly be looking into his other books.
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