From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and
brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of
first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life.
Now: 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.
Then: 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.
But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie
begins to hope.
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, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a
theater troupe over the course of a summer.
Now: 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, Sweet Sorrow 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.
