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When he’s not working, Charlie rides aimlessly around on his bicycle. In the empty period between the end of term and the announcement of results, Charlie works part-time at a garage, where he initiates a scratchcard scam to help ease the financial burden on him and his pill-popping, depressive father – Charlie’s parents have just been through a door-slamming divorce. Charlie “didn’t hate our town, but it was hard to feel lyrical or sentimental about the reservoir, the precinct, the scrappy woods where porn yellowed beneath the brambles”. Sweet Sorrow is a love story, but it’s also about growing up, about leaving home. Charlie is more poetic and artistic than he cares to admit to his pals for boys like him, the “only acceptable talent was in sport, in which case it was fine to strut and boast, but my talents lay elsewhere, very possibly nowhere”. Our hero, Charlie Lewis, is the quietest of his gang of four – Harper, Fox and Lloyd are the others – who swagger about the school, rowdy and faux-thuggish: “To not be a dick this was the great rite of passage we had yet to pass through.” Merton Grange serves a small town in Sussex “too far away from London to be a suburb”. It’s June 1997 and the students at Merton Grange comprehensive have just finished their GCSEs.
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We may think of Nicholls as a writer of heartbreakers – One Day prompted many poolside tears – but he has always been a comic novelist and Sweet Sorrow is full of passages of laugh-out-loud Inbetweeners-ish humour. Sweet Sorrow is a book that does what Nicholls does best, sinking the reader deep into a nostalgic memory-scape, pinning the narrative to a love story that manages to be moving without ever tipping over into sentimentality, all of it composed with deftness, intelligence and, most importantly, humour.
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If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again-in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow-what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.After the surprisingly grownup reiseroman that was the Booker-longlisted Us, Nicholls has returned to the tone and register of his multimillion-selling third novel, One Day. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story.īut instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens' life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right.
When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends.įor most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book.