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'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. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Mystifyingly popular,
By Diagon (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Day (Paperback)
I am totally perplexed by the popularity of this book. I've read the same story so many times before - boy meets girl. Boy is good looking and rich - girl is not. They get together in the end, blah blah blah. And the 'twist'? What a cop out. The last sentence might as well have been 'And then he woke up and it was all just a dream'. Clearly A LOT of people like this book. I was gobsmacked to see quite how many big names have given it rave reviews. I don't know why. If the author had been a woman it would have been written off as just another bit of chick lit.
712 of 770 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you like life, you'll like this,
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This review is from: One Day (Hardcover)
From being a celebrity in the 90's to having a boss with a large beard, nothing is shied away from in this big pot of life. This book follows every 15th July from 1988 (end of their studentship) to near present day in the lives of two characters; Emma and Dexter, and their relationship with each other and others. Don't be put off by the length (430 odd pages) of this book - it is so ridiculously easy to read it makes the act of putting on a DVD seem like overexertion. That's not to say that the writing isn't thickly layered - it's stuffed with literary calories. Emma and Dexter jump out of the book and start living with you, eat your food and argue over the top of your head about the worthlessness of Scrabble. So much of the sharp-razor sharp dialogue sticks a grin on your face, people are unlikely to sit next to you on the train (read in extra comfort).
So there's Emma: warm, funny and cataclysmically directionless. Dexter: confident, arrogant, and transparent. The book then bends these attributes into the three dimensional. Their relationship treads its own path - there's no inevitability in what the next year will bring - their interactions with others the same. Every supporting character, whether they're on one page or a hundred is given their own space to be believable and interesting, and most likely make quite a bit of a mess of things. The book finished - I'm missing them both. Time for them to come and bother you.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Return to form for Mr Nicholls,
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This review is from: One Day (Hardcover)
David Nicholls' first book (Starter for Ten) is my second favourite comedy book (eclipsed, just, by 'e' by Matt Beaumont) - his second novel, 'The Understudy' I rated at 1* because it was just not very good and rubbish in comparison with Starter For Ten. I was a bit apprehensive, when I saw that he had written a third, but most of the ratings here seemed to say it was good, so I bought it.
It was not good - it was brilliant - it is one of those 'been there, seen it, got the T-shirt' books, with excellent characters and completely identifiable stories / situations. Nicholls' ability to transcribe conversations is excellent and it is written in his very easy to read style. I found it hard to put down and even though I am a slow reader I still managed it in two days. One of the best books I have read in a long time - well done for a sparkling return to form.
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