The razor-sharp debut novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love.
Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. She is the former co-host and co-creator of the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low. 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 (UK) for Autobiography of the Year. Ghosts is her first novel.
Witty, touching without ever being sentimental, hugely
enjoyable
*David Nicholls*
It's incredibly moving. The idea of believing in everything and
nothing in the same moment. The female friendships were beautifully
drawn
*Billie Piper*
Ghosts is wonderful. Funny, sharply observed, poignant, and full of
truths about life and love and friendship.
*Matt Haig*
This debut novel is a tender, effervescent and deliciously
well-observed guide to the complexities of thirty-something
life
*The Daily Mail*
Ghosts is an absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both
cynical and sincere, Dolly Alderton's voice feels like your very
favourite friend. I devoured it
*Taylor Jenkins-Reid*
A sharp-eyed debut . . . Tests the boundaries of what used to be
called chick-lit
*Guardian*
There are sharply skewered set pieces, but also tender observations
. . . a promising, deftly written, often entertaining and poignant
debut novel
*Sunday Times*
Loved it from start to finish, really laugh out loud: well-written,
packed with ideas and observations and so engaging I can't put it
down
*Philippa Perry*
I absolutely adored it. So clever and funny and such a treat. The
pages really did turn themselves
*Cathy Rentzenbrink*
A stunning achievement: I was laughing out loud, doing my best a
few minutes later not to burst into tears and then angry that it
had all come to an end. So moving, so funny, so beautifully written
and so poignant. Brilliant
*Stanley Tucci*
Utter BRILLIANCE. Dolly is such an insightful commentator on love,
longing, friendship and emotional landscapes. I absolutely LOVED
it!
*Marian Keyes*
Dolly Alderton's writing is incredibly intimate, tender, and
observant. Ghosts is a fantastic novel about friendship, family,
and love
*Holliday Grainger*
I loved it - Dolly Alderton has clearly mastered every form of
writing. Which is a surprise to nobody
*Candice Carty-Williams*
This is a lovely, funny, modern comedy of manners. It's shrewd and
sharp
*Instagram*
I love this book. It is wise, funny, tender and true,
sharply-observed and utterly hilarious. Alderton's gift is always
to give the mundane its beautiful due and in Ghosts, she manages to
write a compulsively readable novel. Dolly Alderton's talent is
phenomenal
*Elizabeth Day*
I loved it. Had me howling with laughter and recognition!
*Bryony Gordon*
You know a book has hit the spot when you've decided before
finishing which friend you're going to pass it to. The writer's
skill at dissecting love and relationships translates seamlessly
into fiction
*Evening Standard*
This brilliantly observed novel will make you nod, laugh and cry in
recognition
*The Sun*
Such clever writing, wonderfully funny; fab characters and
delightful details. Divine
*Nina Stibbe*
If you've ever been disappointed by a man it will vindicate every
mixed-up emotion you've ever had about it
*Laura Jane Williams*
Hilariously cutting, but also sad and insightful. Reading Dolly's
writing is like having one of those glorious girls night in, where
you drink till the early hours - laughing, venting, and feeling
warm and seen
*Holly Bourne*
Whip-smart . . . a heartwarming tale of family and friendship
*Evening Standard*
So brilliantly perceptive, packed with pin-sharp observations on
every page. Dolly is such a fantastic writer
*Jill Mansell*
Witty, tender, big-hearted
*Sainsbury’s Magazine*
A few years ago, Alderton seamlessly taped into our psyches with
her 2018 memoir Everything I Know About Love. Now she's back with
that same signature wit and blistering honesty in her debut novel,
Ghosts
*Cosmopolitan*
Alderton masterfully exposes the hideous reality of dating in your
30s and how unfair it can be on women who enter the fray in honesty
and hope. Hugely emotionally intelligent and often very funny. I
adored it
*Daily Mail*
A fascinating, perceptive look at what it means to be a
thirty-something woman right here, right now . . . Sharply
observed, sometimes tender, sometimes tart, Ghosts will resonate
with so many women
*Red, The Best Books to Read this October*
Dolly sums up life in your thirties with such wit, warmth and
accuracy, you won't want it to end
*Heat*
Alderton balances heartrending emotion with keen-eyed satire,
displaying a flair for metaphor and comic set pieces
*Mail on Sunday*
Funny and insightful, it's a brilliant look at the way we can be
haunted by doubts, memories and home
*Psychologies*
Alderton has a talent for believability, realism and the knack to
reach into the pages and pull out the characters onto the sofa next
to you. Topical, relevant with a touch of tender humour
*Weekly*
As warm-hearted, wise and observant as her bestseller Everything I
Know About Love. In this heartfelt, funny and insightful tale,
Alderton cleverly explores the way memories, doubts and home can
haunt us
*Sunday Express*
Alderton explores the ideas of relationships, friendships, love,
memory and the way in which we live in a beautifully written and
poignantly powerful novel
*GQ*
Stuffed full of insights and adroit observations . . . a
masterpiece of modern manners. Alderton's life-enriching social
anthropology will be the antidote for flagging spirits in the next
lockdown' Spectator
*Spectator*
Achingly relatable. A darkly funny-melancholic novel about the rich
variety of relationships in our lives - and the importance of
showing up for them
*i*
This modern love story has lashings of arch humour and gentle
wisdom, and slides down as pleasingly as a slice of cake and a nice
cuppa
*Spectator*
Explores the ideas of relationships, friendships, love, memory and
the way in which we live in a beautifully written and poignantly
powerful novel
*GQ*
If you need a good rom-com escape, Dolly Alderton more than
delivers in Ghosts. . . it's darker than Everything I Know About
Love - but just as fantastically relatable
*Vogue 12 of the Best Autumn Reads to Curl Up With Now*
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