Ghost book dolly6/3/2023 It is, in some ways, a fluffy piece of schadenfreude, but like her characters, with their own "schadenfreude shelf", it is comforting to read about someone who is even worse off than you. As a twenty-something single woman in London, her romantic mishaps are all too familiar, but the familiarity of humiliation can be a salve to injured pride. Perhaps that is part of its charm – that the characters are so recognisable, and also so self-oriented. Again, that is not to say that this takes away from Ghosts. Nina is short where Alderton is tall, dark-haired where Alderton is blonde, a food writer rather than a columnist, but it is close enough to be clearly all about Alderton. Alderton has amended some details, but the bare bones are very obvious to any readers of her 2018 Everything I Know About Love. The narrator and protagonist of Ghosts, 32-year-old Nina Dean, is a very thinly veiled portrait of the author.
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