![]() ![]() ![]() Her first collection of essays, Everything I Know About Love, was a best-seller, won the National Book Award in the UK, and is being adapted for television with Alderton writing the script. In internet parlance, he ghosts her.Īlderton’s shrewd observations about modern life coupled with her natural warmth and humor, have earned her legions of fans both in her native UK and abroad. They begin an intense courtship over the course of six months they cook each other dinner, text one another all day, he tells her he loves her, and then, quite suddenly, he stops replying to her messages and won’t return her calls. But the titular ghost is Max, a broad-shouldered accountant who Nina meets on a fictional dating app called Linx. ![]() Her father is slowly disappearing as he falls into the grips of dementia her mother, in response, is undergoing a strange personality transformation and her friends are graduating from the hedonism of their twenties and are beginning to create new lives for themselves. ![]() Life for Nina, the thirty-three-year-old, London-dwelling food writer at the center of Ghosts, Dolly Alderton’s second book and first novel, feels like a metropolitan haunted house. ![]()
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