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.

It's 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 it's as if a new world has opened before him.

But can it last?

Twenty years later, Charlie tells the story.

ONE OF BRITAIN'S 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'
NEW STATESMAN