# A Long Way Down

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- Book: [A Long Way Down](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down) ([A Long Way Down.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-577-8
- Published: 2005-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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?