He advanced that Maeve's works had paved the way for offerings such as Ghosts, and the very successful Normal People by Sally Rooney, which became a smash hit when it was adapted into a series by the BBC in March. Pierce claimed in his review that the only ghost he felt connected with during his read of Dolly Alderton's novel was the spirit of Irish novelist and playwright Maeve Binchy, who penned Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends. The book, he wrote, had left him feeling with Alec Guinness' character in The Bridge over River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson, who is wounded by mortar at the end of the movie. While he likened it to Norah Ephron's romantic movie You've Got Mail, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, Pierce said Alderton's novel had neither the 'timelessness' nor the 'charm' of the movie.Ĭomparing Alderton's prose to a 'thick mayonnaise', he also quipped that the author's use of the term 'a Durex for her heart' was 'mortifying.' Ghosts, by Dolly Alderton, gathered more positive reviews elsewhereĭating apps boomed in 20, issuing a glossary of terms such as 'ghosting,' - when a dating app match stops all communications without warning - from which Alderton took inspiration for the title of her novel.
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