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For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple - he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all . . . But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?
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A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- A Long Way Down
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nick Hornby
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 024196993X
- ISBN13
- 9780241969939
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, British Literature, Death, England, Life, Great Britain, Adapted for Film, London, Teens, Fate, Loneliness, Suicide, Searching for the meaning of life, Irony
- First published
- 2002
- Original title
- A Long Way Down
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple - he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all . . . But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?