Funny, tender, and eminently, movingly relatable, Ghosts is a whip-smart tale of relationships and modern life. Their conversations are witty and ironic, they both hate sports, they dance together like fools, they happily dig deep into the nuances of crappy music, and they create an entire universe of private jokes and chemical bliss.īut when Max ghosts her, Nina is forced to deal with everything she's been trying so hard to ignore: her father's dementia is getting worse, and so is her mother's denial of it her editor hates her new book idea and her best friend from childhood is icing her out. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. She is the former cohost and cocreator of the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. DOLLY ALDERTON is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. 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. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very favorite friend.” -Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising 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.".Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now. 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. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. 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. Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood.
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