A Long Way Down

‘Hornby’s best novel to date, impossible to put down…how can an examination of four people’s anguish be so enthralling?’ Ruth Rendell, Guardian‘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?‘Hornby pins down the age in which we live with precision and comic brilliance’ Guardian‘Masterful…some of the finest writing - and some of the most outstanding characters - I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading’ Johnny Depp‘The finest novel Hornby has written to date’ Evening Standard