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Charlie Lewis looks back on the summer after he left school. Those weeks of blazing sunshine remain as vivid as his memories of Fran Fisher.

A decade after the publication of his bestselling novel, One Day, David Nicholls has again created a triumphantly engaging pair of young lovers.

When Charlie Lewis meets Fran Fisher in the summer of 1996, he is at something of a loose end. School is out and so is the sun, but his future is not looking bright. He has been hit hard by his parents' split and is not happy about the role assigned to him by his mother - keeping an eye on his depressed and bankrupt father.

Failure hangs in the air - not just the closure of his father's record shop but also Charlie's inability to complete most of his GCSE exams. But then Fran Fisher almost literally stumbles across him and a whole new world opens up.

David Nicholls' last novel, Us, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. Earlier this year, he won a BAFTA for Patrick Melrose, his television adaptation of the novels by Edward St Aubyn.

In Sweet Sorrow he gives us a pitch-perfect portrayal of the anguish and joys of adolescence brilliantly laced with wit and compassionate humour.

James Norton - familiar from his roles in McMafia and War and Peace as well as the psychopathic villain in 麻豆社 TV's Happy Valley - reads his first book for 麻豆社 Radio.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters.

Producer: Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for 麻豆社 Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2019.

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