
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
by Keiran Goddard
Title:
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Author:
Keiran Goddard
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Hachette UK Distribution
ISBN-13:
9781408717813
EAN:
9781408717813
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
506
Dimensions (mm):
222 x 145 x 26
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes. LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they'd do with their lives.Now they are thirty, and only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn't stop him clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom, while Conor has a baby on the way and a business plan he hopes will change everything. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, but even they are rocked when an old secret opens up new wounds...Bold, ambitious and stylistically striking, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning asks what happens when all the things we expect from our lives end up ... not happening. It lays bare the ways that place and circumstance shape us, explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship and examines the true limits of hope and forgiveness.














