![]() Four very different characters are heading for the roof of a skyscraper locally known as ‘Toppers’ House’, in order to jump off it. ![]() We begin in North London, scene of all Hornby novels, on New Year’s Eve. ![]() Only readers fall upon his books with simple, unabashed delight, and there are several good reasons for this, all of them enshrined within the hard covers of his latest, A Long Way Down. Football fans say they hate him because he supports Arsenal a lot of writers I know hate him because he is hugely rich and has his own website. Having started his career by creating an entirely new genre (the wry sport-obsessed memoir, which made it possible for anyone with an obsession and a plausible prose style to write and have published their own wry memoir), he has since produced a series of novels that have pulled off the double whammy of which we all dream: almost universal critical acclaim, and sales in their millions. ![]()
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