Sweet Sorrow

<p><strong>A tale of first love that hits all the right notes . . . [it] just might be the sweetest book to brighten your late summer.</strong> <strong><em>--The Washington Post </em></strong></p><p><strong>Dazzles with wit.<em>--People</em> </strong></p><p><strong>From the bestselling author of <em>One Day</em> comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how one summer can forever change a life.</strong></p><p><em>Now</em>: <strong> </strong>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.</p><p><em>Then</em>: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. He's failing his classes. 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.</p><p>But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself Charlie begins to hope.</p><p>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. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult the truth is even more appalling: The price of hope it seems is Shakespeare <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer.</p><p><em>Now</em>: Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran his friends and his former self. Poignant funny enchanting devastating <em>Sweet Sorrow</em> 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.</p>