![]() Likewise, she bickers constantly with her mother, forever criticising rather than empathising. She openly despises her best and oldest friend for 80% of the novel. ![]() The only people she gets along with are her father and her Only Single Friend (the capitalisation is the novel’s, not mine). To begin with, seeing the story through the eyes of the narrator, Nina, was like looking through whatever the opposite of rose-tinted glasses is. But the overall message, and main takeaway, was ‘modern dating is shit’ – and despite an attempt at a happy ending, this novel left a pessimistic taste in my mouth. Yes, there were funny moments, lovable characters to root for, relatability by the bucketload. It promised ‘whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.’ What it presented – to me, a 21-year-old female reader – was a thoroughly depressing vision of the future. The above line was the most heartbreakingly depressing moment in Dolly Alderton’s first novel, Ghosts. ‘When will this all end? I just want someone nice to go to the cinema with.’ ![]() 2 STARS Dolly Alderton, 2020 CONTAINS SPOILERS ![]()
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