THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'David Nicholls is that rarest of
literary creatures: a genuinely brilliant, genuinely popular
novelist.' - Stuart Maconie, in New Statesman's Best Books of 2020
'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.'
Telegraph One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran... 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
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