Sweet Sorrow

One life-changing summer
Sixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran...

8 million copies
since STARTER FOR TEN first introduced us to his
incomparable talent for making us laugh, cry
and wince with recognition in the space of a single sentence;
ten years
after ONE DAY became the iconic love story for a generation;
five years
since the journey of US took him to the Man Booker Prize long-list;
DAVID NICHOLLS has written a major new novel, SWEET SORROW:
a hymn to the tragicomedy of ordinary lives, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, blinding explosion of first love that perhaps can only be looked at directly once it has burned out.