Sweet Sorrow: The long-awaited new novel from the best-selling author of ONE DAY
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Sweet Sorrow: The long-awaited new novel from the best-selling author of ONE DAY
Product Description THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure.' Observer'Triumph ... the sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending.' The Sunday Times 'Pitch perfect ... Exquisite ... Terrific ... Very funny ... Though Sweet Sorrow is certainly pulse-quickening enough to absorb readers through this summer's airport delays and rained-off beach days, it's no escapist fantasy. The tale of Charlie and Fran will linger long beyond your tan.' TelegraphEveryone has that one summer. In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling.The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare.Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out. 'A compassionate, intelligent look at the raw pain and loneliness of a teenage boy, the everyday miracle of first love and the perennial power of Shakespeare's language.' Spectator 'A superbly written, beautifully observed account of teenage life, love, family dysfunction and friendship, which builds to a stunningly poignant ending.' Heat 'The author of Us and of course One Day has never written with more tenderness and insight than in this bittersweet story ... perfectly captures the dizzying highs and lows of first love.' Daily Express 'Such a beautiful book. Captures perfectly a moment in time we've all experienced.' Graham Norton Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of August 2020: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is in a dark place. He’s failing at school, his mates are sort of jerks, and his home life was ripped apart when his mother moved out with his sister to live with another man, leaving him to watch over his depressed father. One summer day, he happens upon a theater troupe putting on the Shakespearean classic Romeo and Juliet. Charlie is not really the theater sort, but there’s a girl—the artsy Fran Fisher, who is playing Juliet. Charlie is no Romeo but he falls for Fran in a sweet love story. Telling the story in flashbacks, the adult Charlie recalls one fateful summer in his life. Nicholls writes razor-sharp dialogue, and it’s impossible not to daydream about “the one who got away” while reading this novel. Nicholls may be best known for his breakout hit One Day, but Sweet Sorrow cements his place in the smart romantic comedy canon. —Sarah Gelman, Amazon Book Review About the Author David Nicholls is the best-selling author of Us, One Day, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. His novels have sold over eight million copies worldwide and are published in forty languages. Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing, and he recently won a BAFTA for Patrick Melrose, his adaptation of the novels by Edward St Aubyn, which also won him an Emmy nomination. He lives in London.Rory Kinnear, an Earphones Award-winning narrator and a renowned theater actor, won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for his performances as Angelo in Measure for Measure and the title role in Hamlet, and he gained an Olivier Award for his portrayal of Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode. His TV credits include Count Arthur Strong, Lucan, Women in Love, and Black Mirror, and he played Bill Tanner in the Bond films Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. Review "Fully fleshed-out characters, terrific dialogue, bountiful humor, and genuinely affecting scenes."-- "Booklist (starred review)"
