Ghosts: Exploring the vanishing points of the dating game

Food writer Dolly Alderton’s new novel is a story of women like herself and the ramifications of their life choices

Dolly Alderton, the author, journalist and podcast host, has published her first novel

FICTION

Ghosts

By Dolly Alderton

Fig Tree, €14.99

‘“I know this isn’t a comfortable thought,” she said, tentatively reaching up to stroke my ponytail, “but is there any possibility he could have died?”’

In this scene from Dolly Alderton’s debut novel Ghosts, 32-year old protagonist Nina Dean – a successful food writer in the “strangest year” of her life – is lying under a blanket on the sofa with Lola, better known in the book ...