One life changing summer sixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran ...Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love than can only be looked at directly after it has burned out. The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of "One Day".