Drayton and Mackenzie

A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025''A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations ... I finished it tear-stained'' Sunday Times''Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship'' The Times Best Summer Books''My book of the summer'' Janice Turner''Thrilling'' GuardianLonglisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025For the first time since university, James and Roland''s paths through life – one drawn in straight lines, the other squiggled and meandering – began to cross…James Drayton has always found things too easy. By the time he leaves university, he''s still waiting for a challenge worthy of his ambitions. Roland Mackenzie, on the other hand, is an impulsive risk-taker, a charismatic drifter with a knack for derailing his own attempts to get started in life.When a chance encounter in a pub reunites these old