Nick Hornby is the author of three previous novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good, and two works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch and 31 Songs, and has edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking With the Angel. His distinctions include the 1999 E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2002 W. H. Smith Award for Fiction, and the 2003 Writers' Writer Award at the Orange Word International Writer's Festival. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel the New York Times best-selling author mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line.