Book Review: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton *Content warnings* Includes discussion of dementia

Rating: 5/5

Category: modern fiction

Land

Nina is a 32-year-old food that is successful located in London. She’s an unbiased and apparently well-off lady in her very own right. We know towards the start of the guide that Nina ended up being as soon as inside a seven-year-long commitment with Joe, whom she now will continue to have a detailed friendship with. Joe has actually since shifted to a brand new commitment with a lady known as Lucy.

Nina starts to make use of the app that is dating’ (it’s Tinder.) and she strikes it well through a ruggedly good looking guy called maximum. Nina and maximum start an intense relationship which culminates in maximum informing Nina he views the next along with her and therefore he really loves her. Nonetheless, once we might anticipate, Nina’s super-intense beau actually is not absolutely all which he appears.

One other motif within the land surrounds Nina’s dad Bill, that is struggling with alzhiemer’s disease. Nina’s mom Nancy (whose make an effort to make an effort to alter her name to ‘Mandy’ for the length of the book adds some funny moments) discovers being a carer for Bill more and more tough, her to accept her age and own mortality as it forces. More