A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgrace
d TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words
, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all...but n
ot, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-o
ld Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party
.
