Sweet Sorrow

Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us and Sweet Sorrow . One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim: translated into 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide. His fourth novel, Us , was longlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. On screen, David has written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd , When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations , as well as of his own novels, Starter for Ten, One Day and Us . His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose , starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer. A new Netflix adaptation of One Day will be released in 2024, which David is executive-producing. David's latest novel, You Are Here , will be published in April 2024 and is available for pre-order now. Klappentext A tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and a celebration of the searing explosion of first love. From beloved bestselling author David Nicholls. Vorwort A tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and a celebration of the searing explosion of first love. From beloved bestselling author David Nicholls. Zusammenfassung Pre-order David Nicholls' new novel YOU ARE HERE now - Coming April 2024 A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT FIRST LOVE FROM BELOVED BESTSELLER DAVID NICHOLLS A tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and that one summer that changes your life forever '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 It's summer 1997, school is over and Charlie Lewis's life is in shambles. 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? 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 ...

Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love

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A tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and a celebration of the searing explosion of first love.
From beloved bestselling author David Nicholls.

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David Nicholls