Publisher Description

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES'A wonderful, wonderful book'THE TIMES'Perfect'NEW YORK TIMES'A modern classic'DAILY MIRROR'You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy'INDEPENDENT'Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable'NICK HORNBYTwenty 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?

Notes

Paperback edition of the moving and funny novel which follows two people through 20 years. From the author of the bestselling Starter For Ten, which sold over 200,000 copies, who has also written for TV shows such as Cold Feet and Rescue Me. 'A wonderful, wonderful book' The Times

Author Biography

David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us, Sweet Sorrow and You Are Here. 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.

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 YearI 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 KeyesThe ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have - Adele ParksBig, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life - Nick HornbyThe 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 - HeatIt 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 ClubYou'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em - IndependentNicholls' 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

Promotional

ONE DAY is the multi-million copy bestselling novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation.

Prizes

Winner of Galaxy Book Awards 2010 (UK)

Long Description

SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES 'ONE DAY is destined to be a modern classic' - Daily Mirror Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. The multi-million copy bestseller that captures the experiences of a generation. '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?

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You're gripped from the opening pages . . . Nicholls, author of STARTER FOR TEN, writes faultless, engaging dialogue and keeps up a cracking pace. You will find this hard to put down

Promotional "Headline"

ONE DAY is the multi-million copy bestselling novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation.

Description for Sales People

Incredibly moving and funny novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation - unmissable for everyone who came of age with When Harry Met Sally or Friends

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