A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby First published 2005

About this book

Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

Subjects

apartment dwellers
fiction
fiction, general
fiction, psychological
gruppe
hochhaus
interpersonal relations
lebenssinn
london (england), fiction
new york times reviewed
selbstmordgefährdeter
suicidal behavior
suicide