A Long Way Down

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple：he has，in his own words，‘issed his life away’.And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all …But not，as it happens，alone.Because first single-mum Maureen，then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen his idea-but brought their own reasons.

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For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple：he has，in his own words，‘issed his life away’.And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all …But not，as it happens，alone.Because first single-mum Maureen，then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen his idea-but brought their own reasons.

Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you.A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies.But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living？

‘Hornby pins down the age in which we live with precision and comic brilliance’.

尼克·霍恩比，英国当代著名作家。生于1957年，毕业于剑桥大学，教过英语，做过记者，先以一部非小说《足球狂热》声誉鹊起，获1992年英国图书奖年度最佳体育类图书，接着第一部小说《高保真》（或译作《失恋排行榜》）又一炮走红。这两部作品，还有后来的《男孩·男人》都被改编成电影，广受好评。1999年，尼克·霍恩比获得美国艺术与人文学院E.M.福斯特奖。2001年的小说《如何是好》入围英国布克奖，并被评为WH史密斯图书奖年度最受读者喜爱的小说。

尼克·霍恩比定居伦敦北区，他的小说和生活都围绕着这个丰富生动的大都市。