{"product_id":"sweet-sorrow-paperback","title":"Sweet Sorrow - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Nicholls\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A tale of first love that hits all the right notes . . . [it] just might be the sweetest book to brighten your late summer.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e--The Washington Post \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Dazzles with wit.\"\u003cem\u003e--People\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling 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 one summer can forever change a life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44513309425766,"sku":"9780358248361","price":26.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NnAxWEY2SXRjemxKbURhNndWRFlEQT09.webp?v=1770702867","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/sweet-sorrow-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}