It’s part of a feeling that you get throughout the book – that you’re Nina’s unseen friend, that you could jump into the restaurant with her and friend Lola, to chip in your thoughts. Maybe it’s because you’re reading a novel called ‘ Ghosts’ - or just because the 20 and 30-something women have learned nothing if not that anything that seems to good to be on a dating app, definitely is – but as a reader the red flags start to appear before Nina sees them. Nina – a successful writer of cookery books - is single and making her first foray onto the dating apps.
Instead of Alderton (co-presenter of the hugely successful High Low podcast), this time we’re following the life of Nina George Dean, who we meet on her 32nd birthday and follow over the next year of her life. READ MORE: 'I'm Not Your Friend:' Dolly Alderton On Friend Culling Whether she’s talking about dating, friendships, parents or career, the stories she tells are so relatable that by the end of the book you’ll have neck ache from nodding in recognition. It’s safe to say most people will have found themselves somewhere on that tick-list, and of course, that’s the magic of Alderton’s writing – here and elsewhere – her deep understanding of the life of a modern woman and the ease with which she creates relatability on the page. It’s yours if you love the bones of George Michael. It’s yours if you’ve got a nuisance neighbour, a true best friend or pivoted career.
It’s for anyone who’s been to a hen party. Anyone who has turned up to their parents’ house one day and realised they’re not 30-something anymore… and actually, you are. Anyone who’s felt less than, or left behind. Anyone who has felt abandoned by friends. Ghosts belongs to anyone who has been on a dating app. Now, in her first novel Ghosts, she moves on to telling all of our stories. In her first book, Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton told her personal story of growing up and coming to understand what love was to her.
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