We get to know Nina and her friends a little better (including her ex-boyfriend who she is still close to) and explore what it means to be ghosted. So she signs up to dating app Linx, and all the ups and downs that go with that.
We meet Nina as she, now secure in her career, decides it’s time to embark on a new relationship. Also, the exchange between Nina and her mum about this is just brilliant.īut like all abnormalities and embarrassments of childhood, adulthood recalibrated them into a fascinating identity CV. She got her middle name as Wham! were number one with (the excellent) Edge of Heaven the day she was born and her mum loved George Michael. Our lead character, Nina is a food writer. Opening sentence: My 32nd birthday was the simplest birthday I ever had. Despite its close-to-Halloween release, it’s not actually about spirits and ghouls, but it is a wonderfully sharp, insightful, funny and sensitive look at a woman in her 30s navigating life, while exploring the different types of loss that affects so many people.
Ghosts is journalist Dolly Alderton‘s debut novel.
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