
Drayton and Mackenzie
Alexander Starritt’s best novel yet follows the lives of two entrepreneurial graduates against a backdrop of the 2008 crash to Covid and beyond — Read the complete FT review
Synopsis
James Drayton has always found things too easy, and he’s searching for a challenge worthy of his ambitions, one that will fulfil the destiny he thinks awaits him.
Roland Mackenzie is a charismatic, impulsive risk-taker with boundless enthusiasm but a knack for derailing his own attempts to get started in life.
When a chance encounter reunites these old acquaintances, it sets them on an unpredictable course through the upheavals of the 21st century. Against the backdrop of the financial crash and its aftermath, they strive to create something that outlasts them, something that will matter.
