About Ghosts
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he’s going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan.
A new relationship couldn’t have come at a better time – her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone’s moving to the suburbs. There’s no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who’s caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.
Dolly Alderton’s debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.
- Complete Title: Ghosts
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 352
- Publication Time: October 15, 2020
- Publisher: Fig Tree
- ISBN: 0241434548
- ISBN13: 9780241434543
About Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton
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.
Reviews Ghosts
rory gilmore
this would’ve been 100x better if nina and lola had realised that men sucked and then fell in love and had a happy lesbian life making cool recipes and living in london…
Regina
There’s a particularly heinous level of hell reserved exclusively for single women in their thirties. If you’ve visited it yourself, you know. And if you haven’t, Dolly Alderton has written a bo…
emma
I love when a book agrees with me. Makes me feel smart, and also psychic.This book, for example, echoes something I’ve been saying at group dinners to be dramatic / while watching romcoms on various s…
Ceecee
Let me introduce you to Nina George Dean – the middle name in honour of George Michael who was number one when she was born. She’s 31, single and a successful food writer. Using dating app ‘Linx O…
Krystelle Fitzpatrick
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. It tries so hard to strike that good balance between serious commentary on relationships and ageing as well as humour and kitschy romance- but it just…
Lauren
does this book have flaws? most certainly. however, as someone who was recently mistreated by a “too good to be true” dating app match, i was all too willing to look past them. Nina is a protagonist y…
Kat
Nina George Dean is a 32-year-old single food writer living in London and slowly watching her pool of friends marry off and grow their families. Having a more feminist mindset, she doesn’t need a ma…
GTF
Crammed with unlikely occurrences, asinine dialogue and excessive meandering, Dolly Alderton’s “Ghosts” quickly descends from a reasonably promising piece of fiction into a tiring farce. The story is…
Autumn
Nope. Not for me.A vapid 2020 Bridget Jones with a great effort made to sound like Nora Ephron (Alderton wrote the foreword to the new edition of I Feel Bad About My Neck, she’s a big Ephron fan.). Th…