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Sweet Sorrow
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Sweet Sorrow
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Publisher's Summary
One life-changing summer, Charlie meets Fran...David Nicholls’s highly anticipated new novel, narrated by Rory Kinnear.
In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his 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.
Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.
But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he 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. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow 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.
Critic Reviews
"Nicholls is fabulous on first love and Kinnear’s narration strikes the perfect balance between teenage defiance and vulnerability." (Daily Mail)
"Such a beautiful book. Captures perfectly a moment in time we've all experienced." (Graham Norton)
"He's such a genius. His novels are relatable and recognizable, but also surprising, breath-taking and life-enhancing." (Nina Stibbe)
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- Anita
- 07-11-2020
Narrator was brilliant, so talented.
I seem to like the book more than my friends who read it (for book club), I think because of the narrator. But also loved the story overall.
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- Diane Parkes
- 23-09-2019
Love is such sweet sorrow
Re-live your adolescent former self and first love in this funny and affectionate tale. The narration was perfect thank you Rory Kinnear, the story superb.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-09-2019
great
very enjoyable story from a teenaged boy's perspective of his parents marriage breakdown and effect on him and his own first love. Conversational style well read.
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- Jo
- 05-08-2022
An excellent listen!
I really loved this book - I laughed my way through about 2/3 of it and (almost) cried my way through the last 1/3. I didn’t want the book to end. The story was compelling, and Rory Kinnear brought the characters to life with his narration. Every voice was winner and I could picture them all vividly. I got way more out of listening to this book than I could have done reading it to myself. Anyone who was a confused and awkward adolescent will find this book strikes a real chord. Highly recommend!
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-2021
Rory Kinnear is brilliant
This was a beautiful and poignant story brought to life by the totally fantastic Rory Kinnear who I could listen to for hours. Highly recommend this. Thank you for a transportive experience. Magic
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- Carole O'Sullivan
- 01-09-2019
I loved it. Made me laugh and even cry.
Rory Kinnear brought it to magical life.
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- jackie b
- 03-09-2019
Brilliant
New and inventive take on a childhood love story. Rory Kinnear is at his best. Highly recommended
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- Noinam
- 29-01-2020
Bittersweet and really quite beautiful
I loved listening to Rory Kinnear read Sweet Sorrow. He was the perfect narrator. Such a nostalgic tale for anyone who was a teenager or young adult in the 90s. David Nicholls captures the bittersweet nature of first love through the eyes of a teenage boy, brilliantly.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-03-2021
Loved it even more the second time!
I love everything by the author. This book is funny and relatable and the narration is brilliant. I will listen a third time
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