Overview

June cleans houses. Ray is a janitor at the public tennis courts in Dun Laoghaire. He s not romantic material, and she s not even friend material. When it comes to learning how to be with other people at the age of 70 plus, they are unlikely companions, even more unlikely friends. Ray looks a bit like Willie Nelson, June looks a bit like Chrissie Hynde. They ve never fitted in before and they don t fit in now. They are just regular folk for whom the path towards love has been closed off. Yet, as understanding blossoms into friendship, June and Ray find themselves slowly rediscovering the joy that s been missing from their lives for so long.

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Reviews

‘A skillfully composed novel, lever in the best way. Perfect summer reading’ Irish Times  ‘Deliciously deceptive, flawed and perversely personable characters' Scottish Sunday Post  'A radiant novel, achingly romantic’. Irish Independent  'A tender miracle of a book. Normal People with pensioners' Andrea Gibb award winning screenwriter Mayflies, Miss Austen  ‘Short enough that you won’t want it to end, Best Friends is a love story that’s charmingly and wittily told, shot through with tenderness and poignancy. A charming new romance depicts a love story like no other’ Sunday Herald 'A joy to read…… Perfectly pitched to be a word-of-mouth summer hit'  John Self, The Times

Author Information

Andrew Meehan has published four books, One Star Awake, Instant Fires and The Mystery of Love. He was Head of Development at the Irish Film Board and teaches creative writing at Strathclyde University. His new novel Hey Man is coming out in May 2026.

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