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One Day

On sale

4th February 2010

Price: £12.99

Galaxy Book Awards, 2010

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781848949775
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‘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?

(P)2010 Hodder & Stoughton

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<i>Daily Express</i>
Clever, funny and poignant
Heat
A brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades
Daily Mail
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
Observer
Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A beguiling read
Herald
Nicholls captures superbly the ennui of post graduation . . . The writing is almost faultless, there's a great feeling for the period and it's eminently readable
Harper's Bazaar
An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare
Jonathan Coe, <i>Guardian</i> Books of the Year 2009
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.
Marian Keyes, writing in the <i>Irish Independent</i>
Incredibly moving
Tony Parsons
A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are...the best weird love story since THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE. Every reader will fall in love with it. And every writer will wish they had written it.
Nick Hornby
Big, 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
Jenny Colgan
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.
Adele Parks
The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have
Kate Mosse
I really loved it . . . it's absolutely wonderful . . . just so moving and engaging
<i>Independent</i>
You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em
<i>Heat</i>
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
<i>Heat</i>
With its beautifully rounded, real characters and deeply poignant storytelling, this is one of the year's best novels.
<i>Daily Mail</i>
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 feelgood film must surely be just around the corner. I can't wait.
<i>Observer</i>
Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A beguiling read
<i>News of the World</i>
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.
<i>Herald</i>
Nicholls captures superbly the ennui of post graduation . . . The writing is almost faultless, there's a great feeling for the period and it's eminently readable.
<i>Sunday Tribune</i>
Nicholls has written a warm, witty, smart and sad novel, and maybe one of the best books of the year
<i>Psychologies</i>
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
<i>Esquire</i>
As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised
<i>Harpers Bazaar</i>
An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare
<i>Woman & Home</i>
An edgy romantic tale
<i>thelondonpaper</i>
Snort-out-loud stuff . . . it deserves to be a huge hit
<i>Glamour</i>
A wonderful evocation of a modern love affair
<i>Guardian Review</i>
Lightly done, but saved from schmaltz by rueful wit and lashings of cringe-inducing nostalgia
Kate Mosse, writing in <i>The Times</i>
A total treat . . . by turns bittersweet, funny, touching and sad, but always Nicholls's wonderfully observant and wry touch shines through. A way-we-live-now parable about relationships, disappointments, friendship and expectations; a novel utterly comfortable in its own skin
Fay Ripley
Fabulous . . . I couldn't put it down . . . It's brilliant
Ed Miliband <i>The New Statesman<i>
I found it totally gripping. The characters are complex, the locations familiar. I don't want to give away the ending but everyone who reads it agrees how powerful it is.
Nick Hornby
Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable
The Times
A wonderful, wonderful book
Marian Keyes
I finished it last night and I'm still quite wobbly and affected by it. It was BRILLIANT . . . the jealousy nearly made me puke. I wish I'd written this book
Daily Mirror
One Day is destined to be a modern classic
Simon Mayo Books Panel, BBC Radio Five Live
I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book
She
An unputdownable romance for the 21st century
Guardian
This perfectly executed novel is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is
Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday
A genuine tear-jerker as well as laugh-out-loud funny
Evening Standard
Nicholls' unmatchable gift for dialogue and romantic plotting
Dolly Alderton, author of GHOSTS
The book I go back to time and time again is One Day by David Nicholls. I read it every couple of years. It's perfect
Financial Times
A pleasingly collaborative reading experience
Prime
A modern classic
YOU Magazine
One of the most tear-jerking novels ever written
Maggie Shipstead, author of GREAT CIRCLE
Re-reading One Day by David Nicholls is another version of putting on a Nora Ephron movie. It never gets old because the pleasure and comfort is in the language and the observations and the characters
Pandora Sykes, author of HOW DO WE KNOW WE'RE DOING IT RIGHT
One Day changed my life
New York Times
David Nicholls's One Day needs a special mention for its perfect encapsulation of Edinburgh's university experience. The novel takes place mostly in London but its two main characters meet as students here and almost - but not quite - fall for each other. Therein lies the tale
Hello
Captivating
iNews
David Nicholls portrays the bittersweet experience of being a young man so brilliantly
Tony Parsons, author of THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR
A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are . . . the best weird love story since The Time Traveller's Wife. Every reader will fall in love with it. And every writer will wish they had written it
Jenny Colgan, author of DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?
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
Adele Parks, author of ONE LAST SECRET
The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have
Independent
You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy
Jonathan Coe, Books of the Year, Guardian
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
Kate Mosse, The Times
A total treat . . . by turns bittersweet, funny, touching and sad, but always Nicholls's wonderfully observant and wry touch shines through. A way-we-live-now parable about relationships, disappointments, friendship and expectations; a novel utterly comfortable in its own skin
Uncut
Page by page, the funniest book of the year
In Style
Perfect for the beach or summer in the city
Sunday Herald
A delicious love story
Book of the Month, Marie Claire
A smart comedy, packed with the mistakes, mismatches and meandering conversations that make up real life
Scottish Review of Books
A modern fairy tale, slickly put together. A gifted story-teller with lots of technical savvy
Woman
A compulsive read you'll want to devour in one sitting
Scotsman
A cross between Jonathan Coe and Nick Hornby, this is romantic, sharp and very English
Top 10 Summer Books, Elle
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 quarrelling meant-to-be lovers?
Entertainment Weekly
Nicholls has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that's wholly his own . . . [A] light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying
Esquire
As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised
Sydney Morning Herald
Warm-hearted, funny, endearing