Sweet Sorrow

Sweet Sorrow: a novel of the searing explosion of first love, and the rocky path to adulthood
A beautiful paean to young love
OBSERVER

Fizzing
GUARDIAN

A glorious escape to the sunlit uplands of the 1990s
FINANCIAL TIMES

Exquisite
DAILY TELEGRAPH

The sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending
SUNDAY TIMES

Everyone has that one summer.

Its 1997 and Charlie Lewis is stuck. School is over, his family is breaking up, his father is falling apart and the long, empty holidays stretch ahead towards an uncertain future.

And then, quite by chance, Charlie meets Fran Fisher and its as if a new world has opened before him.

But can it last?

Twenty years later, Charlie tells the story.

ONE OF BRITAINS MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS
One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now
FINANCIAL TIMES

An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters
DAILY TELEGRAPH

Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love
THE TIMES

No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does
EVENING STANDARD

Genuinely brilliant
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