Sweet Sorrow: One Lif-Changin Summer

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure. Observer Triumph ... the sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending. The Sunday Times Pitch perfect ... Exquisite ... Terrific ... Very funny ... Though Sweet Sorrow is certainly pulse-quickening enough to absorb readers through this summer s airport delays and rained-off beach days, it s no escapist fantasy. The tale of Charlie and Fran will linger long beyond your tan. TelegraphOne life-changing summerCharlie meets Fran...In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don t remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his 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.Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he 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.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. A compassionate, intelligent look at the raw pain and loneliness of a teenage boy, the everyday miracle of first love and the perennial power of Shakespeare s language. Spectator A superbly written, beautifully observed account of teenage life, love, family dysfunction and friendship, which builds to a stunningly poignant ending

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David Alan Nicholls (born 30 November 1966) is an English novelist and screenwriter. Nicholls is the middle of three siblings. He attended Barton Peveril sixth-form college at Eastleigh, Hampshire, from 1983 to 1985 (taking A-levels in Drama and Theatre Studies along with English, Physics and Biology), and playing a wide range of roles in college drama productions. Colin Firth was at the same College and they later collaborated in And When Did You Last See Your Father?. He went to Bristol University in the 1980s (graduating with a BA in Drama and English in 1988) before training as an actor at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.

Throughout his 20s, he worked as a professional actor using the stage name David Holdaway. He played small roles at various theatres, including the West Yorkshire Playhouse and, for a three-year period, at the Royal National Theatre. He struggled as an actor and has said "I d committed myself to a profession for which I lacked not just talent and charisma, but the most basic of skills. Moving, standing still - things like that."

Since then, David has turned to writing full-time, and is the author of four novels. One Day was an international bestseller and the follow-up, Us , was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. He s also a screenwriter and TV dramatist; his credits include adaptations of Far From The Madding Crowd , Great Expectations , Tess of the D Urbervilles and feature film version of his own novels. One Day and Starter for Ten .

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