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Title: One Day
Author: NICHOLLS DAVID
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: HODDER HEADLINE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
I can imagine you at forty,’ she said, a hint of malice in her voice. ‘I can picture it right now.’ He smiled without opening his eyes. ‘Go on then.’ 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY.
‘Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable’
NICK HORNBY
Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY.
15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.
So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that?
And every year that follows?
Review: It’s rare to find a novel which ranges over the recent past with such authority, and even rarer to find one in which the two leading characters are drawn with such solidity, such painful fidelity, to real life that you really do put the book down with the hallucinatory feeling that they’ve become as well known to you as your closest friends. Hard to imagine anyone encountering characters as well drawn as this and not recognizing the extraordinary talent of the writer who has created them. – Jonathan Coe Guardian Books of the Year
I finished it last night and I’m still quite wobbly and affected by it. It was BRILLIANT. . . the jealously nearly made me puke. I wish I’d written this book – Marian Keyes
The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn’t have – Adele Parks
Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life – Nick Hornby
The novel of the year – a brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won’t-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades – Heat
It is a cleverly and astutely constructed book – but that is worthy of a mere footnote compared with its emotional impact. I am not ashamed to say that upon finishing it I pressed it to my chest as a big fat tear splashed onto its upturned spine – The Times Book Club
You’d be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em – Independent
Nicholls’ book is the sort of thing you can’t put down, and I read it over a weekend, creeping upstairs to gulp down another chapter when I should have been downstairs preparing dinner of helping with homework – Dylan Jones
Prizes: Winner of Galaxy Book Awards 2010 (UK).
Author Biography: David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us and Sweet Sorrow. One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim: translated into 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide. His fourth novel, Us, was longlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
On screen, David has written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd, When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations, as well as of his own novels, Starter for Ten, One Day and Us. His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer. The Netflix adaptation of One Day was executive-produced by David.
David’s latest novel, You Are Here, will be published in April 2024 and is available for pre-order now.
ISBN: 9780340896983