Irvine Welsh: Men in Love
The author talks to Miranda Sawyer about his new novel, which takes the Trainspotting crew on a riotous journey through Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris.
There wasn’t an album they wouldn’t buy, or a drug they wouldn’t try. Then they were left with nothing. Nothing but the eternal quest of all men: the search for love.
Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, Men in Love sees Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor and at an unexpected event: Sick Boy’s wedding day. But is falling in love the answer, or just another doomed quest?
Irvine Welsh’s first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written 13 further novels, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. He currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.
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