Men in Love

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Choose life. Choose love The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller There wasn't an album they wouldn't buy, or a drug they wouldn't try. Then it spiralled out of control . . . 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 reunites the Trainspotting crew for a riotous new journey. Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher's Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event- Sick Boy's wedding day. But is falling in love the answer, or just another doomed quest

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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)
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) *
No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh * Esquire (on Dead Men's Trousers) *

Author Bio

Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written thirteen further novels, including the number one bestseller Dead Men's Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Crime and The Long Knives have been adapted into a television series starring Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.