Friendships are like romances – sprawling, intimate, devoted. “[They have] a definite sense of aliveness,” writes Andrew O’Hagan. In his new book, On Friendship, the author of Caledonian Road reminisces about the bonds that have shaped his life. Across eight essays, O’Hagan moves through laughter, loyalty and loss, charting the curious business of growing older while trying, and sometimes failing, to hold on to the people that once definedhellip;

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