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'Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!' Marian Keyes, bestselling author of GROWN UPS

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Everything gets easier in your thirties, right?

Though she has plenty to celebrate - successful career, new home, loving friends and family - for Nina Dean, her thirties have not exactly been the liberating experience she was sold. From fading friendships to exes popping the question, everyone is moving on (or worse, to the suburbs). And as her dad slowly loses his memories, her mum seems dead set on making new ones.

Then she meets Max, who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her. But what seems like an exciting new development will ensure this year is Nina's strangest yet . . .
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'A book so relatable you'll give yourself neck ache nodding in recognition' Grazia

'Funny, sharply observed, poignant' Matt Haig, bestselling author of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

'Alderton masterfully exposes the hideous reality of dating in your 30s . . . I adored it' Daily Mail

'Like having one of those glorious girls night in, where you drink till the early hours - laughing, venting, and feeling warm and seen' Holly Bourne, author of HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?

'Dolly sums up life in your thirties with such wit, warmth and accuracy' Heat

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; International_edition (July 22, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241988683
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241988688
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 5.43 x 0.83 inches
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Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author and journalist. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. From 2017 to 2020, she co-hosted the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low alongside journalist Pandora Sykes.

Her first book Everything I Know About Love became a top five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication and won a National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year. Her first novel Ghosts was published in October 2020 and was also a top five Sunday Times Bestseller.

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This book is basically the equivalent of watching a rom com on your coziest couch while eating a pint of ice cream and wearing your stretchiest house pants. 😍🙌🏼😍Our protagonist, Nina has the perfect single life - she owns her own home, is a published author, and has a ton of great friends to have fun with. However, she decides that she wants to try a little online dating. Miracle of miracles, she finds an amazing guy right off the bat! After dating for awhile and spending tons of time together, he tells her he loves her.... only to completely GHOST her. Woof, y'all. Nina is mourning this relationship all while dealing with her father's dementia, her friends that seem to be moving ahead in their lives while she's stuck, and her editor's rejection of her third book.This book gave me a smidge of Beth O'Leary's Flatshare meets Rachel Khoum's Goodbye Vitamin with a sprinkling of Sophie Kinsella kind of vibes. Honestly, this American can’t get enough of Brit rom coms.Ooooweee, y'all. <insert tired, mid-30s sigh> I remember those dating days. This book hardcore took me back to my twenties, especially when yours truly did a little dabbling in online dating. Between that, being childless by choice, and dealing with a parent’s declining health, I related HARD to this story.Man, I found myself getting so angry for Nina having to deal with a relationship that just stops, with zero closure. It’s such a cowardly out. In the words of a wise sage, “Boys suck. Throw rocks at them.” 😜As much as I loved this book, in full disclosure, there’s an amorous scene towards the end that felt disjointed and uncomfortable and was a little much. You’ll know when you get there. 😳This incredible little book comes out August 3, 2021 in the US. I usually would have waited until then to review, but I couldn’t help myself with this one! Add it to your reading list, my friends.Thank you to @aaknopf for sending me this book! ❤️
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Gem of a Novel
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023
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This beautiful and amazing novel is one of the best books I’ve read lately. One professional reviewer compared it to the Bridget Jones stories, but beyond both being first person narratives of single women with romantic troubles, there’s little they have in common. While there are some chuckle-out-loud-humorous passages in Ghosts, it is a cri de coeur about the ways in which men often treat women casually, going from one to the next, expressing thoughts and feelings which are ultimately and cruelly belied by their actions. Beyond the heartache of the dating scene and the relentlessly ticking biological clock, the protagonist Nina is simultaneously dealing with her father who has been diagnosed with dementia. With piercing insight and beautiful poignancy, the author describes the bewildering and heartbreaking reality of witnessing a parent’s personality disappearing. In skillful and intelligent prose by the author, Nina is a fully developed, three dimensional character that emerges from the pages as a believable, relatable, and memorable woman. The lesser characters are also fully realized. This novel should be on everyone’s must read list.
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Erika
4.0 out of 5 stars lovely and real
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
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I really liked this book, but after the masterpiece that was good material, it’s clearly the earlier of the two. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to take hope from it or not, or to simply delight in and accept that we are where we’re meant to be and it’s okay that it might not be where we WANT to be. Idk, it was really nice to read; it resonated with me and also that means both pain and pleasure.
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3.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 Stars
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This review is going to be short because frankly I just don’t have that much to say about this book. It’s touted as a rom-com but it’s not. It’s a slice-of-life story with a few funny quips. The premise was great, but the delivery was somehow lacking. I would’ve loved to “see” some tidbits about the psychology around “ghosting” and why it’s becoming such a common phenomenon. I think having some of that woven into the story would’ve added some of the meatiness the story currently lacks.

Sadly, this story is a fictionalized version of an everyday situation in today’s dating world. I met my husband through family/friends and therefore never entered the world of app or online dating. Thus, I don’t have a ton of perspective on this particular topic…just sympathy for those who don’t (or didn’t) have a good online dating experience. This book was entertaining and quick to read but ultimately…forgettable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 Stars!
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The blurb for Ghosts is straightforward, but it doesn't emphasize the emotional depth of the story. There are lighter moments, but this isn't a light rom-com with a spattering of poignant moments. And it's not a romance as GR might lead you to believe. It's women's fiction that only plays around with some romantic possibilities. And I loved it. The writing drew me in and Nina's ups and downs kept me reading. I'm flummoxed by how much I related to Nina. She was equal parts strength and passivity, but always honest. I liked her and I understood her. It was a nice open ending and I've already predicted her happy future.
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Carissa Janes
4.0 out of 5 stars Someday
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023
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Nina is very relatable. Has a good career and great life. Relationships are changing; evolving. Aging parents, married friends, craving more in life...
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5.0 out of 5 stars strong single woman
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
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I may not be the target audience, which is probably women in their thirties, for this juicy novel, but I devoured it with relish. Nina, the first-person narrator, is a successful author celebrating her thirty-second birthday when the book opens. After ending a seven-year relationship with Joe, she is now ready to play the dating game and signs up for a dating app. She scoffs at most of the profiles but finally sets up a date with 37-year-old Max, an outdoorsy accountant. Nina is also dealing with a rude and noisy neighbor and a father whose dementia is worsening at an alarming rate. I found Nina’s biggest problem, however, to be the diverging lifestyles among Nina and her longtime friends, particularly those like Katherine who are now married with children. Nina finds herself in the position of having to dodge landmines in conversations related to weddings and pregnancies, as well as having to accept that such friendships are now rather one-sided, with Nina having to make all the concessions to accommodate her friends with family responsibilities. Nina is no slouch herself when it comes to shouldering responsibilities, although in my opinion she drinks too much, but her priorities have not changed as radically since college as those of her friends. Her reflections on men and how they can father a child at any age are spot-on, and I love how she stands up to her inconsiderate neighbor and the ex-boyfriend who jilted her friend Lola.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it! Great characters, great story, great message.
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2023
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Loved Dolly's writing style. All of her characters were believable and real, whether they were good people or not lol. I loved that the characters deal with the same slew of emotions and self-worth questioning every woman goes through when they're in the dating pool. I'm going to go check out a couple of her other books now!
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Lauren
4.0 out of 5 stars Cute!
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2022
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Easy, light, & fun read. I found some parts to be rather slow in the beginning, but overall a cute novel that I would recommend to someone who enjoys light hearted stories that aren't difficult to finish. I enjoyed it!
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Ana
5.0 out of 5 stars Talvez uma das melhores leituras desse ano
Reviewed in Brazil on November 18, 2022
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Posso está sendo parcial, mas a protagonista é muito identificável. Um romance que não é água com açúcar, que coloca em xeque problemas atuais da vida adulta. A dificuldade de se relacionar com outro, a insegurança com relação aos sentimentos, a perda de amigos que seguem caminhos diferentes e a necessidade de sermos pais dos nossos pais.
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Erin
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it.
Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2021
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The descriptions and observations in this book are so accurate. It's a delightful read - at points hilarious and heartbreaking.
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judy luffman
5.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2024
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Read it in a couple of days, wanted to know what happened. Great characters, fun loving young people who actually do a lot more thinking than I did. Just accept and carry on to the future.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Worth finishing )
Reviewed in France on April 3, 2023
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The only reason I kept going with this book is pride : I hate letting a book unfinished. And honestly, while I enjoyed the beginning, the character's actions from an author I thought had terrible opinion on women despite being one quickly made me want to drop the book.

But just at the end of the book (I checked and according to the kindle app it’s at 96% in !) rhe writer makes a really good point about how men use women to their own benefit, learn about life at their partner’s expense. I’m glad I sticked with it because the protagonist and her friends are not in their late thirties and I don’t think it would have made sense if they found the truth right away - that’s not how life works. Sure some parts of their thinking and some events are not flattering for women but if you read through the lines you understand that even though the protagonists present themselves as feminists they live in a patriarcal society which often leads to unconscious misogynia.

When talking to a friend about it, I said that I was shocked that such an unflattering depiction of self proclaimed feminists was disappointing coming from a woman, but in fact only a feminist woman could have written this book : it is smart and accurate. It shows that despite the beliefs of the protagonists, hey believed in the honesty of their partners, who were honests.
Her point is that the male characters are not liars like they thought and they weren't that dumb in believing them. The issue is how men are educated and more generally the problems of patriarchy and its consequences on women - and even between women and girls.

Society doesn’t think that men become ugly when aging or have an “expiration date” nor any “loss of value” on the “Dating market”, unlike women. They are not expected to be as mature at the same age. An experienced men is seen as a good thing, committing late is cool because they took their time to build a live and experience things by themselves, while an experienced women is a whore and if she is committing late it means she isn’t doing things right, or was unwanted when she was young.

The writer, by the main character, speaks about how men talk to women their age to have fun and see how far they can get in a kind of seduction game, even if it implies promising commitment like marriage or moving in together and then just leave, and repeat until they are ready to settle down for good. One of the male character agreed that at that time, they would do it with a younger woman. They get to play around with serious subject and change partner when they get bored, which would discredit any woman.

To make it short at first I thought the book was a vile depiction of women but I couldn’t be SO wrong. It is the other way round. It is a smart AND a chill entertaining read with engaging characters. It's a chill book so keep that in mind when setting your expectations, but it was a nice read and I would recommend it to committed people.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dolly made the best,again
Reviewed in Germany on May 4, 2022
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I really don't know why some readers are trashing her second book! I was reading it even I was walking in the outside or in the tram. The story is fictional this time and I did not feel anything awkward editorially. I liked the characters as well as their experience with OLD. I guess , she did her best to describe this digital World and I actually really want to read something vol-2 and not finishing the whole story with only one book : )

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I loved the unexpected sex with Italian ahahahahah
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