kvmbill.blogg.se - Ghosts dolly alderton paperback

She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, VOGUE, PEOPLE Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very favorite friend.” -Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising

F rom the author of Everything I Know About Love comes a smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you.".

But then I found myself changing my perspective as I read through it - to me, this book is also very much about what happens when we exorcise the ghosts of our younger, former selves, the ones we need to leave behind as we grow with (and out of) some of our most important relationships.

It took me a hot minute to get into it, but once I immersed myself in Nina’s world I felt home (almost uncomfortably so) thanks to Alderton’s writing style.Ĭhapter after chapter, I kept coming back to the title of the novel: Ghosts, of course, at first seemed like a not-so-subtle nod to “ghosting” (a term Nina comes to understand well - same, girl).

Seriously, wow.Ī bit Bridget Jones-y, though more acerbic and a touch more bitter, it follows London-based food writer Nina George Dean over the course of her 31st year as she contends with the evolution of a number of important relationships: with her best friends, with her ailing father and struggling mother, with a new boyfriend, and with her career. And wow, I really, REALLY wasn’t ready for the emotional terrorism that this extremely sharp novel wrought on my brain/heart/all of the above. I’d never read Dolly Alderton before, and actually grabbed her latest, Ghosts, on a whim.