Entertaining with a shallow draft

Typical Hornby halt. Was this better or worse than his last? Hard to say, but fortunately I need this decision also do not apply. Like it has me, diverting it, a good start to my holiday reading material it gave me and brought me here and there is food for thought. What more do you want?
The history: four people meet by chance in the New Year's Eve on the roof of a tall building in the north of London. It connects them nothing more than the intent to commit suicide. But her way down is longer and more troublesome than they had imagined. And this way succeed only through the alliance that make them.
Once again Hornby has a moving, sometimes deeply sad story written me a sly wit and light-footed serenity. It acts as a mild antidepressant. Do not overshadowed the problems it does not talk too good, but it shows us that you can live with them. And the end of the story is as happy as life itself when one realizes that happiness is something you can find every day anew and must!
It remains to say a few words to the language. Aside from perhaps to persistent use of foul language in three of the four characters (each I-narratives) Hornby has beautifully worked out the different registers. The story lives with and for language. IN ORIGINAL READ when it comes up, is my (despite knowing the translation) unrestricted recommendation!
Four stars So, despite some concessions. Maybe I would have forgiven even five, if I'm not more or less randomly Hesse's Steppenwolf had read in connection, the so much richer and far-reaching deals with a similar subject matter. Well, but who compares already Hornby and Hesse?