Writing a debut novel and getting it published is no easy job and having it shredded by a national paper would be soul-destroying,' said another. 'Your review is very droll but it will be horrible for the author to read. Lovely to have the Maeve Binchy reference, she should be referenced more in life,' one said. 'I love Dolly and her writing, but appreciate this as a really entertaining review. Others said they were able to enjoy the review but could not help but feel for 'All the things I know.' author. 'This was a delight,' one wrote of the entire review. 'F****** obsessed with that highlighted quote,' said another, referencing the 2014 quip as well. Readers were split between those who thoroughly enjoyed the review, calling it a delight, and those claiming it would be 'soul-destroying' for Alderton '"Most culturally relevant novel of 2014”, what a zinger,' one said.
Readers were taken by Pierces vivid and scathing review of Alderton's novel. He advanced that Maeve's works had paved the way for offerings such as Ghosts, and the very successful Normal People by Sally Rooney, which became a smash hit when it was adapted into a series by the BBC in March.
Pierce claimed in his review that the only ghost he felt connected with during his read of Dolly Alderton's novel was the spirit of Irish novelist and playwright Maeve Binchy, who penned Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends. The book, he wrote, had left him feeling with Alec Guinness' character in The Bridge over River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson, who is wounded by mortar at the end of the movie. While he likened it to Norah Ephron's romantic movie You've Got Mail, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, Pierce said Alderton's novel had neither the 'timelessness' nor the 'charm' of the movie.Ĭomparing Alderton's prose to a 'thick mayonnaise', he also quipped that the author's use of the term 'a Durex for her heart' was 'mortifying.' Ghosts, by Dolly Alderton, gathered more positive reviews elsewhereĭating apps boomed in 20, issuing a glossary of terms such as 'ghosting,' - when a dating app match stops all communications without warning - from which Alderton took inspiration for the title of her novel.
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