Evenings and Weekends

by Oisín McKenna · 2024

Set against a sweltering June 2019 London, *Evenings and Weekends* follows a kaleidoscope of lives converging on the city’s parks, beer gardens and street corners as a heatwave forces hidden tensions to surface. Maggie, 30, pregnant and financially stranded, faces a return to the hometown she fled and wonders if a baby with her boyfriend Ed will be her last act of spontaneity. Ed, haunted by a past tangled with Maggie’s best friend Phil, wrestles with his own secret ambitions. Phil, disillusioned with his office job, lives for the weekend and falls for his housemate Keith—only to discover Keith already has a boyfriend. Meanwhile, Phil’s mother Rosaleen, newly diagnosed with cancer, journeys to London hoping to reconnect with her son before it’s too late. As political unrest looms and the city’s endless revelry swirls around them, each character must confront love, loss, and the choices that will define their futures in this emotionally resonant, sharply observed debut.