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One Day

A Novel

Author: David Nicholls   Series: Vintage Contemporaries

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Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant--Nick Hornby. This international bestseller that follows an unlikely couple for one decade--on the same day each year--is soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/ Random House Films.

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Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant--Nick Hornby. This international bestseller that follows an unlikely couple for one decade--on the same day each year--is soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/ Random House Films.

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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. •  "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter." —People
 
It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. They face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. As the years go by,  the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed. 
 
"[A] surprisingly deep romance...so thoroughly satisfying." —Entertainment Weekly

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“lBig, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life . . . the perfect beach read for people who are normally repelled by the very idea of beach reads. -Nick Hornby A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad . . . the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!. . . . Nicholls's witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don't notice all the hard work that itr's doing.-The Times(London) Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound. -TheGuardian(London) [Nicholls] has both a very deft prose style and a great understanding of human emotion. His characterisation is utterly convincing . . .One Day is destined to be a modern classic.-Daily Mirror With a nod to When Harry Met Sally, this funny, emotionally engaging third novel from David Nicholls traces the unlikely relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew. . . . Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation . . . If you left college sometime in the eighties with no clear idea of what was going to happen next, or who your lifelong friends might turn out to be, this one's a definite for your holiday suitcase. If you didn't, it still is . . . The feel good film must surely be just around the corner. I can't wait. -Daily Mail A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are . . . the best weird love story sinceThe Time Traveler's Wife. Every reader will fall in love with it. And every writer will wish they had written it.-Tony Parsons The funniest, loveliest book I've read in ages. Most of all it is horribly, cringingly, absolutely 100% honest and true to life: I lived every page. -Jenny Colgan The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have -Adele Parks I really loved it . . . it's absolutely wonderful . . . just so moving and engaging. -Kate Mosse You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em. -TheIndependent(London) l We may have found 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 A moving and feel-good read. Nicholls is an expert at capturing that essence of young adulthood, first love, heartbreak, and the tangled, complicated course of romance . . . . Deserves to be the must-read hit of the summer."-News of the World I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book. -BBC Radio Five Live Nicholls captures superbly the ennui of post graduation . . . . The writing is almost faultless, therer's a great feeling for the period and it's eminently readable. -Herald(London) As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised. -Esquire Perfect for the beach or summer in the city. -In Style A delicious love story.”

"[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most hilarious and emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter." —People

“Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable." —Nick Hornby, from his blog
 
"[Nicholls] has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that's wholly his own. . . . [A] light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying." —Entertainment Weekly

“Nicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like Nick Hornby at his best.” —The Daily Beast (A Best Book of the Summer)

"Fluid, expertly paced, highly observed, and at times, both funny and moving." —Boston Globe

"Those of us susceptible to nostalgic reveries of youthful heartache and self-invention (which is to say, all of us) longed to get our hands on Nicholls’s new novel. . . . And if you do, you may want to take care where you lay this book down. You may not be the only one who wants in on the answers." —New York Times Book Review

"Who doesn’t relish a love story with the right amount of heart-melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling meant-to-be lovers?" —Elle, Top 10 Summer Books for 2010

“A great, funny, and heart-breaking read.” —The Early Show [CBS]

"Funny, sweet and completely engrossing . . . The friendship at the heart of this novel is best expressed within the pitch-perfect dialogue/banter between the two." —Very Short List

“A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad . . . the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up!. . . . Nicholls’s witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don’t notice all the hard work that it’s doing.” —The Times (London)
 
“Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound.” —The Guardian (London)

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About the Author

DAVID NICHOLLS trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. He is the author of two previous novels—Starter For Ten and The Understudy. He has also written many screenplays for film and television, including the feature film adaptation of Starter For Ten. He lives in London.

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House USA Inc | Random House Inc
Published
15th June 2010
Pages
448
ISBN
9780307474711

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