from the Best-Selling Author of One Day comes a bitterSweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life.
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..
Now : Charlie can\'t go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self.
And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling: The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer.
He must join the Company.
In order to spend time with Fran, Charlie must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person.
But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.
At home he looks after his depressed 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.
He\'s failing his classes.
Then : Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don\'t remember in the school photograph.
Now : On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can\'t stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer.
from the Best-Selling Author of One Day comes a bitterSweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life
