Men in Love

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller.* A Guardian and Standard ‘Book to Look Out For’ 2025 *It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest? *****PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:‘The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment . . . It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive’DOUGLAS STUART‘So propulsive . . . about as much fun as you can have between two book covers’ THE TIMES‘The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent’SUNDAY TIMES