At the time he was writing the novel, Nicholls was reading the work of American author John Cheever.
In Douglas, Nicholls captures a particularly fussy, unrelaxing man caught in a very particular midlife crisis.
hen David Nicholls found himself suddenly surrounded by a school of jellyfish during a swim in an isolated French cove, he feared the worst.
I wonder whether, in his fifties, Nicholls has come to terms with his feelings about his own son-father relationship?
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