A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

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The exhilarating New York Times bestseller from the author of High Fidelity , About a Boy , and How to Be Good .

Martin Sharp: A former TV talk-show host. British.
Cindy: Martin's ex-wife.
JJ: An American muscian. Described by Martin as "a tall, good-looking, long-haired man."
Jess: A teenage girl. British.
Maureen: Mother to a sick boy named Matty. British.

“The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.”
JJ
“"And it was kind of appropriate that I was with my ex-lover and my ex-brother at the precise moment I realized, because it was the same kind of thing. I loved them, and would always love them. But there was no place where they could fit anymore, so I had nowhere to put all the things I felt. I didn't know what to do with them, and they didn't know what to do with me, and isn't that just life?"”