Boy Friends : A Memoir of Joy, Grief and Male Friendship – Michael Pedersen

Softback

240 pages

Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571360062

An intimate and original memoir of love grief and male friendship by one of Scotland s brightest young talents. Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting instant fondness - part chemical part kismet. This is how I ve felt about every friend I ve fallen in love with - none so much as you.

In 2018 Michael Pedersen lost a most cherished friend soon after their collective voyage into the landscape and luminosity of the Scottish Highlands. Sitting at a desk at The Curfew Tower Northern Ireland Michael begins to write to his departed friend - Scott Hutchison. What starts as a love letter to one magical coruscating human soon becomes a paean to many friendships - perhaps all friendship. In Boy Friends Pedersen confronts the bewildering process of grief.