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. But then I found myself changing my perspective as I read through it - to me, this book is also very much about what happens when we exorcise the ghosts of our younger, former selves, the ones we need to leave behind as we grow with (and out of) some of our most important relationships.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. It took me a hot minute to get into it, but once I immersed myself in Nina’s world I felt home (almost uncomfortably so) thanks to Alderton’s writing style.Ĭhapter after chapter, I kept coming back to the title of the novel: Ghosts, of course, at first seemed like a not-so-subtle nod to “ghosting” (a term Nina comes to understand well - same, girl).
Seriously, wow.Ī bit Bridget Jones-y, though more acerbic and a touch more bitter, it follows London-based food writer Nina George Dean over the course of her 31st year as she contends with the evolution of a number of important relationships: with her best friends, with her ailing father and struggling mother, with a new boyfriend, and with her career.
And wow, I really, REALLY wasn’t ready for the emotional terrorism that this extremely sharp novel wrought on my brain/heart/all of the above. I’d never read Dolly Alderton before, and actually grabbed her latest, Ghosts, on a whim.
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