'A profound examination of friendship; romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne One summer's evening; two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends; now married and with grown-up children; their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy; and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. As two pints turns to three; then five; Davy and Joe set out to revisit the haunts of their youth. With the ghosts of Dublin entwining around them - the pubs; the parties; the broken hearts and bungled affairs - the men find themselves face-to-face with the realities of friendship.