A Long Way Down
- Nick Hornby`s hilarious bestseller now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan. ` Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?` For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer`s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, `pissed his life away`. & on New Year`s Eve he`s going to end it all.. .but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess & lastly American rock-god JJ turn up & crash Martin`s private party. They`ve stolen his idea
- but brought their own reasons. Yet it`s hard to jump when you`ve got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words & some slices if cold pizza later & these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living? Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award & the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious & moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. If you like Jonathan Coe, David Sedaris & David Nicholls, you will love this book. ”A page-turning plot & rich, funny characters with several big laughs on every page... Hornby`s best yet”. (Literary Review).” Hornby`s best novel to date, impossible to put down...how can an examination of four people`s anguish be so enthralling?” (Ruth Rendell, Guardian). ” Masterful...some of the finest writing, & some of the most outstanding characters I`ve ever had the pleasure of reading”. (Johnny Depp). Nick Hornby has captivated readers & achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, How to be Good, Juliet, Naked, Slam & High Fidelity. His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) & The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.