《真愛挑日子》大衛‧尼克斯最新動人作品
　　改變一生的夏日奇遇，讓愛在稍縱即逝中，綻放最美的火花。

　　查理(Charlie)十六歲，在學校，他的成績不怎麼樣，在家，他必須負責照顧爸爸，只要一想到未來，他只有無窮無盡的擔憂。

　　直到有一天，騎著腳踏車上學途中，查理遇見了一群學生在彩排莎翁經典名劇羅密歐與茱麗葉，不情願地被牽涉其中，居然要出演羅密歐的浪子朋友之一的本沃里(Benvolio)。一場青春校園喜劇，同台登場。而查理則愛上了飾演茱麗葉的女孩法蘭(Fran)。

　　初戀總在尷尬中萌芽，雖然充滿後悔，卻讓人難以忘懷。

　　多部作品改編電影的暢銷作家大衛‧尼克斯，在《真愛挑日子》(One Day)、《我想離開你》(Us)，與《Starter for ten》充分展現他的才華，讓人為他的文字動容，情不自禁地哭與盡情地笑。十年前，經典作品《真愛挑日子》成為一個世代的愛情指標，而五年後《我想離開你》則讓大衛榮登曼布克獎提名。

　　今夏最新小說《Sweet Sorrow》，將再次讓讀者陷入純愛的世界，
　　真愛無價，值得回味一輩子。(文/博客來編譯)

　　One life-changing summer
　　Charlie meets Fran...

　　In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.

　　Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.

　　But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling.

　　The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare.

　　Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.

　　'Such a beautiful book. Captures perfectly a moment in time we've all experienced.' Graham Norton
'He's such a genius. His novels are relatable and recognizable, but also surprising, breath-taking and life-enhancing' Nina Stibbe

Review

　　I don't think anyone writing right now captures youth and adolescence better; I'm not sure anyone even gets close. (Jenny Colgan, author of The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After)
　
　　Such a beautiful book. Captures perfectly a moment in time we've all experienced. (Graham Norton)

　　It's just perfect in every way. (Jill Mansell)

　　Funny, engaging and moving, another triumph from the brilliant David Nicholls. (John Boyne)

　　Astutely observed, and almost painfully nostalgic, SWEET SORROW reads like a true story. (Clare Mackintosh)

　　It's everything a story should be. Beautiful and clear and heartfelt, and it will do what all brilliant stories do: it will find the very pinpoint of who you are and it will stay there. (Joanna Cannon)

　　He's such a genius. His novels are relatable and recognizable, but also surprising, breath-taking and life-enhancing (Nina Stibbe)

　　Few pleasures in life compare to a David Nicholls novel and this is his best yet. (Donal Ryan)

　　Poignant and insightful (Independent)

　　Will stay with you long after the last page (Evening Standard)


About The Author

David Nicholls

　　David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Us, One Day, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. His novels have sold over eight million copies worldwide and are published in forty languages.

　　David trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. He is an award-winning screenwriter, with TV credits including the third series of Cold Feet, a much-praised modern version of Much Ado About Nothing, The 7.39 and an adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles. David wrote the screenplays for Great Expectations (2012) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015, starring Carey Mulligan). He recently won a BAFTA for Patrick Melrose, his adaptation of the novels by Edward St Aubyn, which also won him an Emmy nomination.

　　His bestselling first novel, Starter for Ten, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2004, and in 2006 David went on to write the screenplay of the film version.

　　His third novel, One Day, was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on publication. One Day won the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award.

　　David’s fourth novel, Us, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014 and was another no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. In the same year he was named Author of the Year at the National Book Awards.