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.
A truly amazing book! 👌
Dating app - I read and oh, how everything is similar to reality, all types, descriptions, forms of behavior, everything and in the Tinder app one by one. 😄 and relationships with men. Well I think they were even very correctly conveyed by the author.
And anyway, a book, and like an easy novel, but at the same time a book of serious problems.
The main character Nina is a strong woman, maybe for some of her several choices and it will seem silly, but after all, we each make choices that we are not proud of, the most important thing is to correct them sooner or later.
So in summary, I even really liked the book, just because I impress Nina, it makes me look a bit like me. 😊
P.s. and the book still gets a big plus from me if it contains at least one sentence about HP 😄
Rating: 5/5
Publish House: Jotema
Literary Awards: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee (2021)