Cover of Long Way Down, A

Book 2005

Long Way Down, A

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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Published
2005
  • Apartment dwellers
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Suicide
  • Fiction
  • Suicidal behavior
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Hochhaus

Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.