01772cam a2200289 i 4500 513134537 TxAuBib 20210914120000.0 201001s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593319857 hardcover $27.00 0593319850 hardcover $27.00 TxAuBib rda Alderton, Dolly. Ghosts : a novel / Dolly Alderton. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 303 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia. Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now. 20210914. Businesswomen Fiction. Dating (Social customs) Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Humorous fiction. Romance fiction.