LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
When we first meet Joni she's a disenchanted writer working as a nanny lodging in the house of a therapist in North London. We see the hedonism of city life, the giddy euphoria of the party years, the highs and the lows, the love, the laughter, "the will they won't they" of their relationships all wrapped up in crazy adventures within their London playground. Always comparing their hedonism to that of the resident fuck-up, the yardstick by which they measured their own debauchery. And always coming up trumps.
I loved every page, every obsessive resisting of Joni anaesthetising her feelings in the form of Henry who she had adored since she was sixteen. The comfort, intellectual companionship and craziness of her best friend Dylan. The party has to end sometime though surely? But how, and will it be just for today?
Deborah Maclaren
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Just For Today Synopsis
'A yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book and a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roaring noughties' Rhik Samadder
It was a time of drinking too much and staying out all night. Of boozy al fresco dinners, sneaking into private clubs and midnight strolls on Hampstead Heath. It was a time of friendship, of falling in love and being young. A time when you felt that anything could happen.
But the party can't last forever, and for Joni and her friends, sunrise promises something darker than any of them could have imagined, as they face the one undeniable truth: it's not if the party ends; it's how.
'A huge delight. I remained utterly gripped throughout' Sofka Zinovieff, author of Putney 'Engrossing . . . a powerful book with characters that will stay with you' Heat 'I loved Just for Today, a novel written by a young person about young people getting into the sort of muddles with love and friendship that tend to beset you in your twenties' Nicola Shulman, Spectator Books of the Year
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9781472284006 |
Publication date: |
13th April 2023 |
Author: |
Nell Hudson |
Publisher: |
Tinder Press an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
Format: |
Paperback |
Pagination: |
304 pages |
Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Nell Hudson Press Reviews
'What a yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book. Generous, gorgeous and funny, it's a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roaring noughties. When I finished, I was so bereft and impressed that I turned straight back to the beginning and started again' -- Rhik Samadder 'Unputdownable. Totally wonderful' - Daisy Goodwin
'Engrossing . . . a powerful book with characters that will stay with you' - Heat
'An absolute page-turner of a coming-of-age story, a debut that pulls you in and doesn't let you go until the final page' - LoveReading
I was immediately pulled in with that wonderful feeling of Ah, this is going to sail me along and provide huge delight. I longed to get back to it over the few days I read it and remained utterly gripped throughout -- Sofka Zinovieff, author of Putney -