LOVE by Roddy Doyle

One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. 

As two pints turn to three, then five, Davy and Joe set out on a journey to revisit the haunts of their youth.