One New Year's Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers' favorite, they might encounter company.

A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn't, as the quartet of would-be jumpers forge a pact to live another few months. They meet again - and again - to see how life is turning out.

Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A wise, affecting novel - intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving.