Ghosts
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3.9 • 16 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
Narrated by Holliday Grainger, star of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tell it to the Bees and Animals.
He said ‘I love you’. And then he disappeared.
Things that are going right for Nina Dean:
She’s found her dream job.She finally has her own home.She’s met Max, a beguiling romantic hero who has swept her off her feet.
Things that are going wrong for Nina Dean:
She has the neighbour from hell.Her friendships are fracturing, and so is her parents’ marriage.She hasn’t seen or heard from Max for weeks.
Just as everything ought to be falling into place, it’s all falling apart instead. Nina’s beloved dad’s memory is slipping away from him, and her mum is caught in a baffling mid-life glow-up. Her friends are becoming strangers and her exes are moving on. Everywhere she turns, she’s reminded of time passing.
The last thing she needs is another ghost.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE
'Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!' MARIAN KEYES
'An absolute knock-out… Dolly’s voice feels like your very favourite friend’ TAYLOR-JENKINS-REID
'Witty, touching without ever being sentimental ... Hugely enjoyable' DAVID NICHOLLS
© Dolly Alderton 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The audiobook of Ghosts, Dolly Alderton’s moving debut novel, confirms two things. One: that Alderton—writer, journalist, podcaster—is as brilliant a novelist as she is everything else. And two: that the actor Holliday Grainger should really narrate more audiobooks. Here, in her first solo narration, Grainger perfectly captures Ghosts’ central character Nina George Dean—a 32-year-old food writer attempting to navigate adult life in London—as well as all the highs and lows she experiences along the way. As for those titular ghosts: there’s the boyfriend who disappears on her without warning, the father she’s slowly losing to dementia and the childhood best friend she’s increasingly unable to find common ground with. Told with all the wry, witty observations on modern life you’d expect from Alderton, this is a story of female friendship, family, love and working out your 30s on your own terms. We adored listening to every minute.
