Ghosts

Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
22 Jul 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241988688
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32-year-old Nina Dean is a successful food writer with a loyal online following, but a life that is falling apart. When she uses dating apps for the first time, she becomes a victim of ghosting, and by the most beguiling of men. Her beloved dad is vanishing in slow motion into dementia, and she' s starting to think about ageing and the gendered double-standard of the biological clock. On top of this she has to deal with her mother' s desire for a mid-life makeover and the fact that all her friends seem to be slipping away from her . . . Dolly Alderton' s debut novel is funny, tender and painfully relatable, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships and the way we live today.
I love this book. It is wise, funny, tender and true, sharply-observed and utterly hilarious. Alderton' s gift is always to give the mundane its beautiful due and in Ghosts, she manages to write a compulsively readable novel about modern dating that also examines the stories we tell ourselves about home, identity and gender. Like all the best writers, she wears her talent lightly, but be in no doubt: Dolly Alderton' s talent is phenomenal * Elizabeth Day * Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic * Daily Telegraph,on Everything I Know About Love * Alderton' s wise words can resonate with women of all ages. She feels likea best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug * Evening Standard, on Everything I Know About Love * A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her * Julie Burchill * Very, very, very funny. Don' t hate me when I tell you that Everything I Know About Love is Sex And The Cityfor Millennials, because I mean it as high praise * Red, on Everything I Know About Love * Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship * Mail on Sunday, on Everything I Know About Love * I loved its truth, its self awareness, humour and most of all, its heart spilling generosity. A joy. In short, it' s a stone cold classic * Sophie Dahl, on Everything I Know About Love * It' s so full of life and laughs - I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness * Amy Liptrot, on Everything I Know About Love * Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties * Metro, on Everything I Know About Love * Reading this book is like coming home after a bad date, or a terrible day at work, and finding the person who knows you best in the world sitting on your couch, ready to pour you a glass of wine and give you a hug. I loved it and I can' t imagine anyone who wouldn' t; it' s a genuine delight * Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person, on Everything I Know About Love * Will have you hooked and nodding from the first page. Hilarious and moving * Grazia, on Everything I Know About Love * Poignant, witty, comic, and self-deprecating. In a warm and conversational style she recounts the best and worst of her experiences in a laugh-out-loud, lightning quick journey through the years. This account will resonate with anyone who' s ever been young and in love * Daily Express, on Everything I Know About Love * You will quite literally laugh and cry as Dolly crashes her way through her teens and twenties. This is about growing up and all the mess that comes with it. I loved it * The Pool, on Everything I Know About Love * Funny, sexy and clever, Dolly Alderton is never less than dazzling on the travails of the human heart. She writes with breathtaking honesty about falling into lust and out of love, and each chapter reads like those late night conversations with your best girlfriend that you never want to end * Clover Stroud, on Everything I Know About Love *
Dolly Alderton is an award-winning journalist. She has a column in the Sunday Times and has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, GQ, Marie Claire, Red and Grazia. She is the co-host of The High Low, a weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast, and also writes for television.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241988688
Published: 22 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 352

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