Издания и произведения

Впервые на русском — новейший роман от прославленного автора таких бестселлеров, как «Hi-Fi», «Мой мальчик», «Футбольная горячка», «Долгое падение», «Смешная девчонка» и других, разошедшихся по миру тиражом свыше пяти миллионов экземпляров и успешно экранизированных. Ник Хорнби вновь подтвердил свою славу «признанного исследователя пограничных областей между высокой, но ханжеской, и низовой, но искренней культурами» (Лев Данилкин, «Афиша»). Рядовым субботним утром в мясной лавке в Северном Лондоне встречаются Люси и Джозеф — по разные стороны прилавка. Она школьный завуч, воспитывающая сыновей-близнецов в одиночку после травматического…

Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues. Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall. On an average Saturday morning in a butcher's shop in North London, Lucy and Joseph meet on opposite sides of the counter. She is a teacher and mother of two, with a past she is trying to forget; he is an aspiring DJ with a wide-open future that maybe needs to start becoming more focused. Lucy and Joseph are opposites in almost all ways. Can something…

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter.…

Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It's not a match anyone one…