BOOK OF THE WEEK - "Sweet Sorrow" by David Nicholls Look no further for the summer read you can sink yourself in—Sweet Sorrow is the long-anticipated new novel from best-selling author David Nicholls. Set in 1997 in a small town, the forgettable Charlie Lewis is struggling through school, problems at home and the future. One day on his way home from school, he meets Fran Fisher, and finds his life will never be the same. Now Charlie is faced with the biggest choice of his lif...e - keep what is left of his pride and respect or get the girl and embrace The Company. The price of hope, and love, could very well be Shakespeare. Will this Romeo find his Juliet? Or will he crash and burn spectacularly? 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. 展开
