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Ghosts

Written by: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Holliday Grainger
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Publisher's Summary

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the author of Everything I Know About Love comes 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."

“An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very favorite friend.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, VOGUE, PEOPLE

Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. 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. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry. 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.

But 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. Funny, tender, and eminently, movingly relatable, Ghosts is a whip-smart tale of relationships and modern life.

©2021 Dolly Alderton (P)2021 Random House Audio
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What the critics say

• A People Best Book of the Week • An Entertainment Weekly Best New Book to Read

"A funny, touching take on modern relationships, the struggles of adulthoodand embracinglife as it unfolds."—People

"An astonishingly assured debut... Deftly observed and deeply funny, Ghosts considers where we find, and how we hold onto love with what might well be described as haunting precision."Marley Marius, Vogue

"Hilariously accurate... Powerful... Alderton brings her British wit and fresh writing to online dating and all its ups and downs."Karin Tanabe, The Washington Post

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Keeps you intrigued

I really enjoyed the character development. The story itself was very relatable and I found myself rooting for Nina. Love a good cliffhanger ending

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Fantastic piece of work and art but I can’t get over those last few pages…

This book was very very beautifully written and the topics discussed in it were talked and tackled even more beautifully. (I just finished this an hour ago or so) It was a very charming and funny book at times. But I personally couldn’t give the book a full five stars because the ending just kind of lost me. And I don’t know if I could happily recommend this to someone knowing how amazing the book is up until the last few chapters.


SPOILER- for this bit ‼️
I personally think Max deserved a better ending instead of coming back and ghosting Nina all over again I seen it as a waste plainly and where the book I think may have started to lose me. Personally i think Max’s story should have had more depth when he came back the twists and turns of rebuilding trust with an amazing woman such as Nina and figuring out true happiness meant to him overall and this is not me saying he and Nina should have had this perfect ever after but at least some sort of character building for him instead of him just telling a little bit of back story and then ghosting again…

(Sorry for the rant)

ANYHOW! But it might just be me and what I thought but definitely give it a shot! I want to read more of Dolly Alderton’s work so if you have any recs -please let me know.

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LOVED this book !

Dolly Alderton nailed this!!! I got goose bumps through so many chapters and situations her female characters find them selves in, in all of their relationships. Completely recommend this book

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