by Marta De Sandre

Want lightness. It seems an irreverent statement since the main theme of the book is suicide. But lightness is not superficiality, it is simply the opposite of heaviness. And Nick Hornby is a master of lightness, irony, disrespectful laughter, which materialize in Let's not get down . Four rather odd people meet on New Year's Eve at the top of a London building, determined to commit suicide.

They will postpone the purpose and create a sort of "club of aspiring suicides" made up of totally different people united only and exclusively by the desire to die. Hornby's narration is like the story of a friend, in a noisy pub, with a few pints of beer in the body: conversational and shameless. A little book that slips away slightly, but still leaves its mark, because it deals with life, death, expectations for the future, errors in the past and even small trivial things that are underestimated and turn into indigestible boulders. The starting point of the book, the cornice of a building, is the arrival point of different lives and different ways of dealing with its adversities and the message is condensed in this quote. "Because in my opinion, suicide, people understand it: the majority, even if they have hidden it deep inside, remember a moment of their life when they asked themselves if they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems a bit part of being alive "