Product Information
'A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. The best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!' The TimesProduct Identifiers
PublisherHodder Paperback, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
ISBN-100340994681
ISBN-139780340994689
eBay Product ID (ePID)238815547
Product Key Features
AuthorDavid Nicholls
FormatA-Format Paperback, Paperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral Fiction
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationLondon
Spine28mm
Pagination448
PrizesWinner of Galaxy Book Awards 2010 (UK) .
Author BiographyDavid Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. His TV credits include the third series of Cold Feet, Rescue Me, and I Saw You. He was co-writer for the film adaptation of Simpatico, which starred Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges and Sharon Stone. David's bestselling first novel, STARTER FOR TEN, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2004, and David has written the screenplays for film versions of both STARTER FOR TEN (released in 2006, starring James McAvoy) and THE UNDERSTUDY (not yet released). Also, for BBC TV, David wrote a modern version of Much Ado About Nothing and recently adapted Tess of the D'Urbervilles. He is currently working on an adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd.
Date of Publication04/02/2010
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom