Sweet Sorrow: The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One Day

Sweet Sorrow: The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One DayFrom the best selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming of age tale about the heart stopping thrill of first love and how just one summer can forever change a life. Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer. Then: Sixteen year old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the

From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life.

Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer.

Then: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. He's failing his classes. At home he looks after his depressed father--when surely it should be the other way round--and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.

But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.

In order to spend time with Fran, Charlie must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling: The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer.

Now: Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 08/04/2020
ISBN: 9780358248361
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/10/2020
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020
Booklist 03/15/2020 pg. 37