I’ll just quote a portion of my review now: “ The Great Believers is largely about the devastation of the disease but covers much more. It’s a dazzling and tragic tale about how the AIDS crisis in the 1980s impacted so many, including the group of friends at the center of the story. To me, the acclaim that this book has received is well deserved. That’s what I said when I closed it at the end.

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton is available now.įor more information regarding Dolly Alderton please visit linkt.ree/dollyalderton.įor more information regarding Penguin please visit I *had* to pick one favorite for 2021, The Great Believers would be it. It is one of my favourite reads of 2020 and I cannot wait to see what Alderton produces next. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton was such a joy to read. The love and respect that she has for him seemed to be paralleled in the desire to find a partner who lived up to his standard. For me, the most heartwarming and heartbreaking moments were the scenes with her father. You are really taken on a journey with protagonist Nina Dean. The novel went from happy to sad back to happy in warp speed. It was so multilayered and all in 336 pages. It is the developing and every changing story of family dynamics. It is a story of changing relationships – how life can come between even the best friends. The trials and tribulations, the changes that have taken place over the past few years, the advancement of online dating. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton is a story of modern dating. Now with that out of the way let me tell you why.

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.ĭolly Alderton’s debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone’s moving to the suburbs. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. 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.Ī new relationship couldn’t have come at a better time – her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood.

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