Ghosts is a novel that dares to show how we love and the lengths we go to hold onto it. But then again, that is the nature of love. This book will break and mend your heart simultaneously. Alderton is a keen observer of human behavior similar to Sally Rooney, except you'll laugh more, smirk while reading and feel relieved you're not alone. Ghosts is sharp, witty, insightful and incredibly tender. The novel is about the perennially single Nina who meets the seemingly perfect man, Max, on a dating app who disappears after he says "I love you." In the midst of it all is her father's failing health with dementia, her mother's inability to cope and a crumbling friendship. But I didn't think it was possible to love her anymore than I already do until I read Ghosts. I was an avid listener to The High Low podcast (if you haven't heard of it before I beg you to take a listen) and I read her Dear Dolly column in The Sunday Times religiously. After two years of being happily “inactively single”, she signs up to dating app Linx.I've been obsessed with Dolly Alderton ever since she was the dating columnist (2015-2017) for UK's The Sunday Times. Instead, we meet the fictional Nina Dean on her 32nd birthday and follow her on the “strangest year of life.” Nina is a successful food writer (a fond nod to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn), owns her own flat in Archway and has a good circle of friends, including her former long-term boyfriend Joe. This is partly because the world of her protagonist, 32-year-old Londoner Nina Dean, feels quite familiar, but mostly it’s because Alderton’s skill at dissecting love and relationships translates seamlessly into fiction.įor Alderton, Ghosts is a deliberate step away from writing about herself - or, as she recently put it, “wring the flannel of my personal life out for everyone to inspect”, alluding to her past as a dating columnist and author of bestseller Everything I Know About Love.
I had that feeling with Dolly Alderton’s debut novel Ghosts.
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