World premiere of Sweet Sorrow, David’s new novel, at the Savoy on Feb 11, 2019.

Back in 2009, when we were at Shoreditch House, David Nicholls took to the stage – okay we didn’t have a stage, we had a stool – and made us all fall in love with Dexter and Emma. One Day went on to do quite well. Five years after that he took us all round Europe and to the breaking heart of a couple falling out of love in the middle of their midlife crisis. Five years later – and fresh from the searing Emmy-nominated success of adapting the Patrick Melrose novels – he returns to the Salon to premiere his new novel.
Sweet Sorrow is both sweet and sorrowful, sometimes more, sometimes less, but always enchanting. It is the story of one life-changing summer for sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis. Charlie is the kind of boy you don’t remember in the school photograph: ‘my distinctive feature was a lack of distinction’. School is not good and home is even worse – he’s stuck with his depressed father. Suddenly Fran Fisher bursts into his life – gorgeous, clever and properly a bit posh.

But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he risks the censure of his buddies and steps out from the safety of average anonymity into the spotlight. Fran is in an am drama production of Romeo & Juliet. To find love Charlie must risk tragedy. The price of hope is Shakespeare. Hark, it’s the return of David Nicholls!

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