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Just Like You

By: Nick Hornby
Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, Hattie Ladbury
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The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is an unmitigated disaster.

Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totally right.

Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.

©2020 Nick Hornby (P)2020 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban Feel-Good Comedy Funny

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I really enjoyed listening to this story because it dealt with current issues in an interesting way.

Great story.

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Shame that Brexit featured so heavily in it as I liked the love story. The performances were great.

Brexit heavy

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All the reviews have said it all. It's fixed in time around Brexit but that's not a major distraction from the important issues of human relations and surmounting the challenges of the expectations, attitudes and judgements of others. Be yourself and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Simples. If only...

Easy Listening

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For me it was Nick Hornby as I expected, loved the performance as well as the story

Loved this book

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excellent, will make you laugh and cry. the book to me is like a warm familiar hug

classic Nick Hornby

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Nicly performed but about very normal people and there romans. It was so boring that I didnt finished it.

Not funny, not interesting

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Loverly gentle read. Laughed out loud. I cringed when I recognise myself. The story and characters helped me to get over that embarrassment as they did there’s. Uplifting relaxing thought provoking. Expect this to be a film one day.

Stronger together

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I generally love Nick Hornby books, but this didn’t grab me in the same way, I thought the story line was a bit weak, but an easy and pleasant listen no matter. Very well performed.

Easy listen but not 100% about the storyline

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In a recent interview Nick Hornby lamented the fact the 80% of readers of novels are women but his books Fever Pitch (football), High Fidelity (music), About of Boy (coming of age) are mostly read by men. His latest novel, Just Like You is a kind of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner for the 21st century and covers the themes of age gap relationships, race and class.

Possibly most uncomfortable and controversial of all, the novel is set in 2016 in the midst of the UK Brexit referendum with its associated tribe like mentality and accusations of lies, fear, stupidity and racism. This is a heart warming story of the complications of modern life and how love always wins in the end. Excellent as always from Nick Hornby and this is a story that would appeal to anyone. 5 stars.

Latest Nick Hornby novel is up with his best work

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Loved the characters, loved the narration, loved the ending – just what I needed for a bit of escapism.

Loved it

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