Nathan Evans
you're never too old to change your tune
A gentleman called Joan lands up in a care home like a colourful, combustible cocktail... ticking.
A gentleman called Jim doesn’t know what’s hit him... everything about his new next-door neighbour is triggering.
Battle begins. May the best man win. But beneath antics and antique armour plating, what are both hiding?
Maybe they’ve more than a wall in common?
Might they even be batting for the same team?
‘One Last Song
is a necessary love story, both profoundly moving and profoundly optimistic.
It will inevitably infiltrate your heart.’
MARTIN SHERMAN
‘One Last Song is a beautiful, smouldering, hilarious and sparkling testament to queer intimacy and the revolutionary potency of queer creative activism. Every page filled my heart with Pride.’
DAN GLASS
‘One Last Song is edgy, funny and moving. A heady mix that packs an emotional punch.’
PAUL MCVEIGH
‘Touching, powerful, punchy, funny and sweet. An absolute delight.’
DAVID SHANNON
‘Side-splittingly funny and achingly romantic. A play about ageing disgracefully that’s ferociously full of life.’ RIKKI BEADLE-BLAIR,
on SwanSong
the play that inspired
One Last Song
‘A warm, joyful and ingenious tale of gay love from the UK’s Armistead Maupin’
JOELLE TAYLOR
‘I adored this book. Touching. Heartwarming. Funny. Sad. Beautifully drawn characters I wanted to spend more time with…’
JONATHAN HARVEY
'This is a gem of a novel with characters to cherish.'
ADAM ZMITH
NATHAN EVANS is a writer and performer based in London. Publishers of his poetry include Royal Society of Literature, Fourteen Poems, Broken Sleep, Dead Ink, Impossible Archetype and Manchester Metropolitan University; his debut collection Threads—a collaboration with photographer Justin David—was long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize 2017, his second collection CNUT is published by Inkandescent. Publishers of his short fiction include Untitled, Queerlings and Muswell Press; One Last Song is his debut work of long-form fiction.
Nathan’s work in theatre and film has been funded by Arts Council England, toured with the British Council, archived in the British Film Institute, broadcast on Channel 4 and presented at venues including Royal Festival Hall and Royal Vauxhall Tavern. He hosts BOLD Queer Poetry Soirée, and has chaired/hosted events for National Poetry Library, Charleston Small Wonder Festival, Stoke Newington Literary Festival and Rye Arts Festival; he teaches on the BA Creative Writing and English Literature at London Metropolitan University, and is editor at Inkandescent.
'An enchanting romance - funny, touching and inspiring’
STEPHEN FRY