The brilliant new novel from the author of The Last Summer of the
Water Strider 'A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which
is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity.' Sarah
Hughes, i paper 'What a terrific novel - wickedly sharp, wildly
entertaining - I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty
plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a
crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property
porn thrown in, what's not to like' Deborah Moggach Millennium Eve
and six people gather on a London rooftop. Recently married,
Frankie Blue watches with his wife, Veronica, as the sky above the
Thames explodes into a kaleidoscope of light. His childhood
companion, Colin, ineptly flirts with Roxy, an unlikely first date,
while another old friend, Nodge, newly 'out', hides his
insecurities from his waspish boyfriend. New Labour are at their
zenith. The economy booms, awash with cheap credit. The arrival of
the smartphone heralds the sudden and vast expansion of social
media. Mass immigration from Eastern Europe leave many unsettled
while religious extremism threatens violent conflict. An estate
agent in a property boom, Frankie is focused simply on getting
rich. But can he survive the coming crash? And what will become of
his friends - and his marriage - as they are scoured by the winds
of change? When We Were Rich finds the characters introduced in Tim
Lott's award-winning 1999 debut, White City Blue, struggling to
make sense of a new era. Sad, shocking and often hilarious, it is
an acutely observed novel of all our lives, set during what was for
some a golden time - and for others a nightmare, from which we are
yet to wake up. 'Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this
book' Sadie Jones 'Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium
fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost
era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling
as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author' Jonathan
Coe Praise for The Last Summer of the Water Strider: 'I was very
moved by The Last Summer of the Water Strider, which is both
exquisitely specific to time and place and universal in its
examination of humanity, grief and the bizarre prisons that people
build for themselves - and one another. Funny, fascinating,
mysterious and provocative' Sadie Jones, author of The Outcast
'Great storytelling and superb characterisation. Very few writers
can evoke quintessential Englishness in its myriad forms like Tim
Lott. I loved it' Irvine Welsh 'Lott is excellent when it comes to
the psychology of a grieving adolescent' Observer
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