# A Long Way Down

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- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-05-05

## Description

Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all ... But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

## Editions

### A Long Way Down

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-995-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2021-07-29
- Language: en_GB

### A Long Way Down

- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-15-9463-356-0
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2014-05-06
- Language: en_US

### A Long Way Down

- Publisher: Viking
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 14 min
- Narrated by: Pauline McLynn, Christopher Ragland
- ISBN: 978-02-4100-018-2
- Published: 2014-02-06
- Language: en_GB

### A Long Way Down

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-577-8
- Published: 2005-05-05
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [A Long Way Down](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/de/a-long-way-down) (de_DE)