内容简介
'Hornby's best novel to date, impossible to put down.., how can an examination of four people's anguish be so enthralling?'
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'
For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's prettySimple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on NewYear's Eve he's going ta end it all.., but not, as it happens, alone.Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess andlastly American rack-gad JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen Idis idea - but brought their own reasons.
Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and same slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'
For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's prettySimple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on NewYear's Eve he's going ta end it all.., but not, as it happens, alone.Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess andlastly American rack-gad JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen Idis idea - but brought their own reasons.
Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and same slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?