Name: Ghosts
Rating: 3.849795081967213 (244 reviews)
ISBN: 9780241434543

Dolly Alderton

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. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling

Ghosts

Adele Etheridge Woodson

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3.5 stars. I enjoyed the first half of this novel but towards the middle/ending it just seemed to drag on a bit.

so real and relatable. I love dolly alderton’s writing 

Madilyn Taylor

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says I love you. "An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere ... feels like your very favorite friend." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry. Their conversations are witty and ironic, they both hate sports, they dance together like fools, they happily dig deep into the nuances of crappy music, and they create an entire universe of private jokes and chemical bliss. But when Max ghosts her, Nina is forced to deal with everything she's been trying so hard to ignore: her father's Alzheimer's is getting worse, and so is her mother's denial of it; her editor hates her new book idea; and her best friend from childhood is icing her out. Funny, tender, and eminently, movingly relatable, Ghosts is a whip-smart tale of relationships and modern life.

Nikki

Blasted through this on the beach in a day or two. Forgot to pack the final book in the Silo trilogy, so I tried one of Emily's. Nice to read a book rooted in the real world for once

Josh Dawson

hit the nail on the head about how non committal men can be and how disconnected they usually are in relationships. I love dolly 🤍

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Gia Palamos

Pretty enjoyable and such delicious writing. Watch me drink everything Dolly has written from now on

I would give it a six stars if possible. I fucking love Dolly Alderton and her brain. I fucking loved this book and I will read anything she ever writes ANYTHING

Anushree Taparia

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller

Joana da Silva

I love Dolly Alderton's writing and sense of humor. I didn't really relate to her autobiographical book when I read it, but I swallow everything she writes on her social media. Having said that, I thought I would instantly fall in love with Ghosts. That wasn't the case though. At first, this story felt a little too close to home. The whole 'watching your friends get married', 'being on dating apps wishing for something that isn't there' and 'constantly having friends & family questioning you about when are you going to find a boyfriend' was a too realistic narrative that I didn't want to face on a book because it was already my life. When the ghosting happened to Nina, I could relate deeply to her because god knows I'd already been there. However, the story really took a turn in the second half and made me like these characters and their lives much more than I had up until that point. The jokes are spot on and so are the reflections the main character has. Although this is a fiction work, I really feel like Dolly Alderton put herself in many of the aspects of Nina's life and I couldn't stop imagining Nina as a blonde, even though she's a brunette.

Shreya Punj

Wow, what a book. Reading Ghosts left me feeling dizzy. I tore through the pages, desperate for Nina to get a happy ending. In the Epilogue Nina didn’t seem happy, but she sure seemed content.

As I hurtle towards thirty, I could relate with all the characters barring the men. I can never relate with men. Nina, Lola, Katherine, Mandy…such strong, vulnerable, wonderful women. 

Alderton’s writing shines when delivering sharp-eyed observations. Her keen insights into heteronormative relationships are delightful, and as a reader I found myself either vigorously nodding my head or chuckling in agreement when presented with one.

Gespenster

Tolles Buch. Ich hatte am Anfang Schwierigkeiten richtig rein zu kommen, aber je mehr man liest, desto vielschichtiger und spannender werden die Charaktere. Ich mag die Ehrlichkeit sehr mit der Situationen oder die Gedanken von Nina geschildert werden und die kleinen Überraschung in der Handlung, die man nicht erwartet hat. Überhaupt nicht so Rom-Com mäßig wie ich dachte und das gefällt mir sehr gut.

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