Sweet Sorrow

Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran… In 1997 Charlie Lewis is the kind of
boy you dont remember in the school photograph. His exams
have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father
when surely it should be the other way round and if he
thinks about the future at all it is with a kind of dread.
Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself
Charlie begins to hope. But if Charlie wants to be with
Fran he must take on a challenge that could lose him the
respect of his friends and require him to become a
different person. He must join the Company. And if the
Company sounds like a cult the truth is even more
appalling. The price of hope it seems is Shakespeare.
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.