People talk about love at first sight, about the way that men and women fall for each other immediately, but there is also such a thing as friendship at first sight.'

In Paris, two friends and their lovers meet and become inseparable. PARIS DREAM-TIME is not a story of a lost generation but of four friends who find an elusive happiness amidst the clubs and bars of the Eleventh arondissement. Shockingly erotic, lyrical and tender, it is a novel about how people can turn their backs on all that has made them happiest. It also confirms Geoff Dyer as one of Britain's most talented and original writers.