David Nicholl's 'Sweet Sorrow' oozes enough insight, humour and tenderness to overlook the sentimentality of young love.
There were many clever things about David Nicholls’ globally loved One Day (2009) but the most fundamental of them was the basic idea to take a single day spread over a number of years and through it to chart an unresolved relationship.
Sweet Sorrow has a similarly smart core: write a teenage love story and base it on the most famous of all teenage love stories, Romeo And Juliet. From the title, Shakespeare’s tragic play of teenage passion is at the heart and core of this touching and engrossing book.
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Oozes insight and charm, humour, tenderness and warmth.
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