Nick Hornby&s internationally bestselling first novel available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Do you know your desert-island all-time top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does He keeps a list in fact But Laura isn&t on it
- even though she&s just become his latest ex He&s got his life back you see He can just do what he wants when he wants like listen to whatever music he likes look up the girls that are on his list & generally behave as if Laura never mattered But Rob finds he can&t move on He&s stuck in a really deep groove
- & it&s called Laura Soon he&s asking himself some big questions about love about life
- & about why we choose to share ours with the people we do A million-copy bestseller & adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups make-ups & what it is to be in love This astutely observed & wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls & William Boyd & by generations of readers to come & It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way the range of English literature& Independent on Sunday& Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love Funny & wise sweet & true& Independent&A triumphant first novel True to life very funny & moving& Financial Times