It's summer 1997 and Charlie Lewis is stuck. School is over, his family is breaking up, his father is falling apart and the long, empty holidays stretch ahead towards an uncertain future. And then, quite by chance, Charlie meets Fran Fisher and it's as if a new world has opened before him. But can it last ? Twenty years later, Charlie tells the story. Poignant, clever, hilarious, Sweet Sorrow is David Nicholls' wonderful new novel about the rocky path to adulthood - and the searing experience of first love.
