A Long Way Down by Morwenna Banks, Sophie Thompson, Walter Lewis, Nick Hornby, Neil Pearson - Book

Join Login Invite

Home
Books
A Long Way Down

Buy the Book Recommend Create Group Create Event

A Long Way Down by Morwenna Banks, Sophie Thompson, Walter Lewis, Nick Hornby, Neil Pearson

ISBN: 9780140287028
Release Date: 06 Apr 2006
Average rating: (read by 105 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, pissed 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?

Rated 49906 out of 5213878 books
Recommended 2 times

Help us suggest similar books for your chance to win prizes

See All

	reader32
	Rated it 1 months ago

interesting group of people united in the fact the feel they can't continue living and how they come to terms with the problems in there lives.

	docvegas
	Rated it 8 months ago

I enjoyed more than High Fidelity, but not nearly as much as About a Boy. A bit darker than some of his other stuff, but still packed a good dose of humor.

	cbeatty
	Rated it 9 months ago

Not his best. Just okay.

Similar Books 100See All

Page of 34	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page of 34

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

Average rating: (read by 30 members)

Alison is a medium. She really does hear voices from the other side. But what she hears is sometimes just too dark to pass on. She mostly tells her clients, drawn from the outer reaches of London skirted by the M25, what they want to hear.

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

Average rating: (read by 8 members)

Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family's...

How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

Average rating: (read by 9 members)

This is the tale of a man whose life is in a mess. While drunk, he has a row with his girlfriend, is involved in a fracas with the police, and appears to go blind. But this is just the start. The novel won the 1994 Booker Prize.