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

Rebeca Keren Nuñez

Nina y Lola son dos amigas de treinta y pocos: independientes y con éxito profesional, tienen la sensación que se están quedando atrás mientras sus amigas se casan y tienen hijos, pero tampoco quieren perder su libertad ni quedarse con el primer tipo que aparezca.. Cuando Nina conoce a Max a través de una app de citas recupera la confianza en el amor, pero tras unos meses maravillosos, Max desparece de su vida en el momento álgido de su relación. Divertida, tierna y con el punto justo de tristeza, la primera novela de Dolly Alderton brilla por sus observaciones inteligentes sobre el amor, la madurez, la identidad, la familia y los amigos. Una novela sobre el amor en los tiempos del ghosting. ¿Tu vidaa los treinta no es la que imaginaste? Descubre la novela que habla de ti.

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"Sort of magic, isn't it? To know that we could meet the most exciting person in the world, but they'd never be able able to recreate the history you and I have. What a unique superpower we have over each other.”

"It's like what Joe said in his groom's speech: love is being the guardian of another person's solitude. Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person's hope. Leave it with me and I'll look after it for a while, if it feels too heavy for now." "I can't do that, you're already carrying yours." "Oh, I've been carrying mine for a decade," she said. "I won't notice if I chuck a bit more in."

Loves this comparison to men being children who treat women in their lives as games. I loved when Lola said this is the first generation of men who grew up glued to their PlayStation and Game Boys and weren’t conditioned to develop any sense of honour and duty. That video games replaced parenting. Boys look for fun, complete the fun, and then go to the next level, switch players or try a new game. They need “maximum stimulation.” And this comparison of men being children running around a nursery, picking up and putting down women like they are toys, just completely summarises the dating game and how men always have the upper hand when it comes to relationships and how quickly they move on with their games. It reminds me so much of my earlier years of dating being on Tinder and Hinge. 

Kassandra Nordeste

I thought about all these men in their thirties — ageing on the outside with receding hairlines and budding haemorrhoids — running around a nursery, picking up and putting down women and wives and babies from an overflowing trunk of toys. 

"Do you really want that from these men? Their attention?" 

Literature belongs to everyone and that we should never feel intimidated by it

I loved Nina’s connection comparing the floors of her apartment with each broken heart. The bottom floor housing someone who was dealing with betrayal. The middle floor with disappearance, and the top neighbour grieving the loss of her husband. I could visualize the outside of her building so perfectly, the windows glowing with a snippet into each person’s life. They all shared the same building, all were dealing with heartbreak, but their experience was still their own and different. 

I thought of the three flats on top of each other, how they each housed a broken heart. Betrayal, disappearance, grief.

Ian Brakspear

It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person'

'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind'

literature belongs to everyone and that we should never feel intimidated by it.

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