{"product_id":"sweet-sorrow-the-long-awaited-new-novel-from-the-best-selling-author-of-one-day-9780358248361","title":"Sweet Sorrow: The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One Day","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eOne Day\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen\u003c\/em\u003e: 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow\u003c\/em\u003e: 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, \u003cem\u003eSweet Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11784320\"\u003eDavid Nicholls\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780358248361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0358248361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC043000\"\u003eComing of Age\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045000\"\u003eFamily Life | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Nicholls is the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eUs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Understudy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStarter for Ten\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels have sold over eight million copies worldwide and are published in forty languages. Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing, and he recently won a BAFTA for \u003ci\u003ePatrick Melrose\u003c\/i\u003e, his adaptation of the novels by Edward St Aubyn, which also won him an Emmy nomination. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710658908397,"sku":"9780358248361","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f2b55e37-6222-4d3c-b746-2ff96cab1843.jpg?v=1650146513","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/sweet-sorrow-the-long-awaited-new-novel-from-the-best-selling-author-of-one-day-9780358248361","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}