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Sweet Sorrow

The Sunday Times bestselling novel of first love from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
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'A beautiful paean to young love' OBSERVER 'Fizzing' GUARDIAN 'A glorious escape to the sunlit uplands of the 1990s' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Exquisite' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending' SUNDAY TIMES Everyone has that one summer. It's 1997 and Charlie Lewis... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and a celebration of the searing explosion of first love.
From beloved bestselling author David Nicholls.

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'A beautiful paean to young love'

OBSERVER

'Fizzing'

GUARDIAN

'A glorious escape to the sunlit uplands of the 1990s'

FINANCIAL TIMES

'Exquisite'

DAILY TELEGRAPH

'The sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending'

SUNDAY TIMES

Everyone has that one summer.

It's 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399765237

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sceptre

Illustration: n/a

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 416

About the Author

David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us, Sweet Sorrow and You Are Here. One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim: translated into 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide. His fourth novel, Us, was long-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction. His latest novel, You Are Here, was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller on publication.

On screen, David has written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd, When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations, as well as of his own novels, Starter for Ten, One Day and Us. His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer. The Netflix adaptation of One Day was executive-produced by David.

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