From aggressive algorithms to lusting over likes, Nina and her friends experience different types of love in Ghosts, which leads the reader wondering if romance in the real world is dead. It is a horrible thought that leaves me reeling.

Everything seems to go swimmingly but, alas, the couple do encounter relationship problems (spoiler alert).Īlthough many people use these apps like Nina, many of them remain single. Nina develops an idea of the perfect man she’d like to match with, which results in her meeting Max. Since Covid-19 turned the world upside down, and took our love lives with it, these apps have promised to help you find a match one swipe at a time. Searching for love in our day and age for single women is mainly online-based, especially on tech giants such as Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge. I love how Alderton explores the concepts of looking for love online. This book, however, completely dismisses that stigma. Not dating or being in a relationship with anyone for a really long time, especially in your thirties, can be seen as the first alarm bell to living a single, lonely life. For others, including her ex-boyfriend Joe, this is a worrying situation. For many people, this is perfectly normal.

I quickly brushed past this unrealistic lifestyle before I could become disheartened on the first chapter. Nina is your typical London girl: a best-selling food writer, former English teacher, who lives in her own flat in suburban North London.

Ghosts tells the story of Nina Dean, a British thirty-something woman who embarks on a new relationship thanks to the (fictional) dating app, Linx. Despite her new book being on the expensive side, I swiftly bought it from my local Waterstones and got stuck in. It was so blisteringly honest and relatable that I made sure that everyone around me read it too. A few years ago, I read her 2018 memoir Everything I Know About Love and I finished it within a week. When I heard that Dolly Alderton was back on the bookshelves this October, I couldn’t help but get excited. Alderton’s debut novel is an instant hit to get stuck into as the days get shorter and the nights get darker.

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