One Day
David Nicholls
Vintage
From Publishers Weekly
<p>The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (_The Understudy_) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It's already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass, meet the day they graduate from university in 1988 and run circles around one another for the next 20 years. Dex becomes a TV presenter whose life of sex, booze, and drugs spins out of control, while Em dully slogs her way through awful jobs before becoming the author of young adult books. They each take other lovers and spouses, but they cannot really live without each other. Nicholls is a glib, clever writer, and while the formulaic feel and maudlin ending aren't ideal for a book, they'll play in the multiplex. <em>(June)</em> <br>
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Review
<p>"[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most hilarious and emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter." —_People_
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<p>“Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable." —Nick Hornby, from his blog
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<p>"[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<br>
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“Nicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like Nick Hornby at his best.” —_The Daily Beast_ (A Best Book of the Summer)
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<p>"Fluid, expertly paced, highly observed, and at times, both funny and moving." —_Boston Globe
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<p><em>"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." —</em>New York Times Book Review
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<p><em>"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?" —</em>Elle, _Top 10 Summer Books for 2010
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<p>“A great, funny, and heart-breaking read.” —_The Early Show_ [CBS]
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<p>"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<br>
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