SHORTLISTED: Nero Book Awards
SHORTLISTED: East Anglian Book Awards
For ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.
Fatherless and fretful, the Young Man is trying to nurture a precarious new relationship and to find his place in the world. The Old Man, an increasingly isolated carer for his fading wife, knows he has little left to look forward to. Neither fan is a comfortable talker. However, in a slow-motion play of nods, silences and guarded chats, they strike up a tentative friendship across the generational gap.
Told through thirty-eight chapters – one for each game of the Premier League campaign – Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity. About much more than football, it celebrates the healing, unifying and maddening role of ritualised sport in the lives of ordinary people.
| ISBN: | 9781785634437 |
| Publication date: | 4th December 2025 |
| Author: | George Harrison |
| Publisher: | Lightning Books an imprint of Eye Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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SHORTLISTED: Nero Book Awards
SHORTLISTED: East Anglian Book Awards
For ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.
Fatherless and fretful, the Young Man is trying to nurture a precarious new relationship and to find his place in the world. The Old Man, an increasingly isolated carer for his fading wife, knows he has little left to look forward to. Neither fan is a comfortable talker. However, in a slow-motion play of nods, silences and guarded chats, they strike up a tentative friendship across the generational gap.
Told through thirty-eight chapters – one for each game of the Premier League campaign – Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity. About much more than football, it celebrates the healing, unifying and maddening role of ritualised sport in the lives of ordinary people.
Season features in the following genres: Debuts, General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Association football (Soccer)
Season is available in Paperback, Hardback
Season was written by George Harrison and published by Lightning Books an imprint of Eye Books
Season has 384 pages
£8.99
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