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Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia. Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.
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Ghosts, Dolly Alderton
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Ghosts
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dolly Alderton
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 1785177257
- ISBN13
- 9781785177255
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Love, Family, Women, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, Relationships, Fun, England, Coming Of Age, Great Britain, English Literature, London, Young Adult Romance, Ghosts and Apparitions, Diseases, Dementia (Disease), Single People, English Novels
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- Ghosts
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia. Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.