Novel by nick hornby turned into a film

Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy , and several works of non-fiction including his ground-breaking debut, Fever Pitch. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union. In a perfect world, we would like to keep all of BookBrowse's biographies up to date, but with many thousands of lives to keep track of it's simply impossible to do.

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Somebody said that it was the 'comedy of depression'. I think it is why a certain group of people respond so strongly to the books, all the characters are depressed. I think you actually use the word depression in all the books? I guess there are an awful lot of people out there who do feel depressed and don't find that low level depression reflected in many books that they read.

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Literature is usually much more crisis-focused. You wouldn't describe your books as 'domestic', but you write about daily lives and ordinary things, which maybe one doesn't get in a lot of books. I don't mind my books being described as domestic at all. It was very much an impetus when I started writing. I read a lot books by women and identified with them much more because I lived a domestic life - and most of us do - and that really wasn't reflected in any of the books written by men.