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.

Nina Dean a ajuns la varsta de treizeci de ani ca scriitoare de mancare de succes, cu prieteni si familie iubitoare, plus o casa noua si un cartier nou. Cand il intalneste pe Max, un erou romantic indragostit care ii spune la prima data ca se va casatori cu ea, se simte ca totul se va planifica. O noua relatie nu ar fi putut veni intr-un moment mai bun - treizeci de ani nu au fost experienta eliberatoare, necomplicata, a fost vanduta.