Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Boy Friends cover art

Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen
Narrated by: Michael Pedersen
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £13.00

Buy Now for £13.00

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Slug cover art
Spaceships Over Glasgow cover art
Utterly Brilliant! cover art
Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides cover art
Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't cover art
O Brother cover art
First Generation cover art
Nobody Told Me cover art
Hometown Tales: Yorkshire cover art
Touched by the Sun cover art
Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline cover art
On Connection cover art
The Rachel Incident cover art
Granta cover art
The Joy of Small Things cover art
From a Wonky Path to an Open Road cover art

Summary

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.  

Friendships might just be the greatest love affairs of our lives . . . 

In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life. 

©2022 Michael Pedersen (P)2022 Faber & Faber

Critic reviews

"Lucid, lyrical, loaded.... A love letter to friendship." (Jackie Kay)

"Dazzling...uncommonly romantic, irreverent and at times laugh out loud funny. A delight." (Shirley Manson)

"Beautiful...send it to every friend you've ever loved." (Charlotte Church)

What listeners say about Boy Friends

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    24
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    22
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    22
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

a very beautiful book about friendship

Michael Pederson writes with such honesty and emotional intelligence I defy anyone to not connect with this book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Love in the truest form

Just finished reading this.

It’s an amazingly beautifully written, heartbreaking, funny, honest, poetic and the truest of love letters to a best friend (and all Boy Friends).

If you read just one book that I recommend - I hope it’s this one. 💜

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A beautiful book

Whilst listening to Michael reading this marvellously honest journey through friendship, growth, and loss, I have cried, laughed, and now am left with a feeling of loss on completion. He manages to describe his feelings so elequantly. Listening allowed me to understand better emotions I have felt but could never verbalise.

You simply have to read this book. Or listen to Michael reading it to you, which I particularly loved.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful

My words won't do this book justice but simply put this is BEAUTIFUL. Michael is an excellent author and I'm really in awe of him penning this wonderful masterpiece, inevitably his narration is equally just as wonderful.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!