Sweet Sorrow
The Sunday Times bestselling novel of first love from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
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Publisher Description
Sweet Sorrow: a novel of the searing explosion of first love, and the rocky path to adulthood
'A beautiful paean to young love'
OBSERVER
'Fizzing'
GUARDIAN
'A glorious escape to the sunlit uplands of the 1990s'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'Exquisite'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'The sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending'
SUNDAY TIMES
Everyone has that one summer.
It's 1997 and Charlie Lewis is stuck. School is over, his family is breaking up, his father is falling apart and the long, empty holidays stretch ahead towards an uncertain future.
And then, quite by chance, Charlie meets Fran Fisher and it's as if a new world has opened before him.
But can it last?
Twenty years later, Charlie tells the story.
ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS
'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love'
THE TIMES
'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does'
EVENING STANDARD
'Genuinely brilliant'
NEW STATESMAN
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It's tough to think of a modern writer that captures what love is about better than David Nicholls. The unpretentious relatability, the beautifully observed small details, the clarity with which he writes about heartbreak; all these trademark flourishes are present on his fifth novel. Sweet Sorrow is a gorgeous tale of first love and a coming-of-age story that’ll spark nostalgia and red-faced recognition. It’s also very, very funny. Our hero is Charlie: a 16-year-old heading into the summer low on confidence and prospects. His horizons are suddenly broadened spectacularly and terrifyingly by—quite predictably—a girl, and—quite unpredictably—Shakespeare. As we all know, the course of true love never did run smooth, and Nicholls guides us beautifully through a glorious summer you’ll not want to end.
