So serious and yet so funny

Martin, Jess, JJ and Maureen have all the snout full to the brim! They want to put an end to their lives. But as luck would have it, you are looking for from all the same place at the same time. And since it can be bad jump from a London high-rise, when has already formed a queue behind you, go the four rather have a drink and pour each other's heart. Martin was once a successful Boulevard journalist before he ended up with a minor in jail after an affair and was abandoned by his wife and children. Maureen's life revolves more than 20 years just to her disabled son, is the need to raise alone after her husband left her shortly after birth. JJ's sister committed suicide three years ago, an event which she and her career horny parents never coped. Jess, finally, is a failed rock musician from America, whose dreams are all shattered.
The four make a pact. They all give their lives six months a chance. If nothing has changed in that time, waiting since still the skyscraper as a way out.

Hornby is there already something great succeeded. Although it all the time comes to suicide and broken lives in "A Long Way Down", I laughed when reading the Romas tears. And it's not because I think it's great when people kill themselves, but because Hornby this serious subject with a bone-dry, yet life-affirming tackles that leaves the reader no choice but to join the search for meaning of the protagonist with constant fits of laughter ,

Conclusion: You must read this. A great book about life in all its beautiful and tragic facets.