Book review – “Long Way Down” by Nick Hornby

Brilliant Hornby novel, one of his best. Actually I’ve really loved all of them except “How to be Good” (and even that one I liked I just didn’t love). This has the advantage of multiple protagonists so Hornby gets to show the POV of four different, rich characters. Marvellous, full of humour and insight – like the would be suiciders realising that they couldn’t do it… which in some way made them feel worse, because the option was gone. I kept wondering how you’d adapt it for film – four narrations, I reckon, with a third act ticking clock based on something.