My life in BOOKS

WITH A NEW LOVE STORY, YOU ARE HERE, OUT THIS MONTH, BESTSELLING AUTHOR David Nicholls SHARES THE BOOKS THAT HAVE SHAPED HIM

My favourite character from a book is… Where to start? The most vivid characters are often unbearable or deeply unlikeable, and who’d want to spend time with Miss Havisham or Miss Jean Brodie? And yet the pleasant characters are often deeply dull, and David Copperfield is lousy company, too. Perhaps someone funny then. I love Zooey in Salinger’s Franny And Zooey, his cool and his cynicism. It would be good to sit and smoke and drink martinis with him. The character I most relate to is… When I was younger, Adrian Mole was like looking in a mirror and Pip from Great Expectations still resonates; the vague aspirations, the terrible mistakes, the desire to be decent and the failure to do so. I’ve never really let go of that book. The book that helped…

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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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