Sweet Sorrow: The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One Day

By David Nicholls

Book Overview

"A tale of first love that hits all the right notes . . . it] just might be the sweetest book to brighten your late summer." --The Washington Post

"Dazzles with wit."--People

From the bestselling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how one summer can forever change a life.

Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer.

Then: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. He's failing his classes. At home he looks after his depressed 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.

But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.

In order to spend time with Fran, Charlie 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, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer.

Now: Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0358274273
• ISBN13: 9780358274278
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I loved this

This was so nostalgic! The characters were amazing, the writing was amazing, the pace! I loved this so much! Everything was created beautifully Wins: -the characters, Charlie was absolutely amazing and I loved him. The peaks at his life were written so well. -the slice of life amazing ness. I haven’t read a lot of slice of life novels, but I enjoyed it. It was new to me for sure. -the pacing. The pacing was well put together, not too slow, not too fast -the time hops were well done. We got a peak behind the curtains at current day that I enjoyed a lot. Opportunities -there was some odd formatting. I think that may have just been because it was an arc and wasn’t fully edited -the cover is cute but it’s not my favorite I really liked this. It was nostalgic and completely different from anything I have read. I definitely want to read more of his writing because this was amazing