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One Day

Galaxy Book Awards, 2010

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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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Clever, funny and poignant
<i>Daily Express</i>
A brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades
Heat
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
Daily Mail
Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A beguiling read
Observer
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
Herald
An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare
Harper's Bazaar
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, <i>Guardian</i> Books of the Year 2009
Incredibly moving
Marian Keyes, writing in the <i>Irish Independent</i>
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.
Tony Parsons
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
Nick Hornby
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
<i>Independent</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>Heat</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>Daily Mail</i>
Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A beguiling read
<i>Observer</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>News of the World</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>Herald</i>
Nicholls has written a warm, witty, smart and sad novel, and maybe one of the best books of the year
<i>Sunday Tribune</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>Psychologies</i>
As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised
<i>Esquire</i>
An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare
<i>Harpers Bazaar</i>
An edgy romantic tale
<i>Woman & Home</i>
Snort-out-loud stuff . . . it deserves to be a huge hit
<i>thelondonpaper</i>
A wonderful evocation of a modern love affair
<i>Glamour</i>
Lightly done, but saved from schmaltz by rueful wit and lashings of cringe-inducing nostalgia
<i>Guardian Review</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
Kate Mosse, writing in <i>The Times</i>
Fabulous . . . I couldn't put it down . . . It's brilliant
Fay Ripley
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.
Ed Miliband <i>The New Statesman<i>
Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable
Nick Hornby
A wonderful, wonderful book
The Times
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
Marian Keyes
One Day is destined to be a modern classic
Daily Mirror
I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book
Simon Mayo Books Panel, BBC Radio Five Live
An unputdownable romance for the 21st century
She
This perfectly executed novel is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is
Guardian
A genuine tear-jerker as well as laugh-out-loud funny
Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday
Nicholls' unmatchable gift for dialogue and romantic plotting
Evening Standard
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
Dolly Alderton, author of GHOSTS
A pleasingly collaborative reading experience
Financial Times
A modern classic
Prime
One of the most tear-jerking novels ever written
YOU Magazine
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
Maggie Shipstead, author of GREAT CIRCLE
One Day changed my life
Pandora Sykes, author of HOW DO WE KNOW WE'RE DOING IT RIGHT
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
New York Times
Captivating
Hello
David Nicholls portrays the bittersweet experience of being a young man so brilliantly
iNews
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
Tony Parsons, author of THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR
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, author of DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?
The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have
Adele Parks, author of ONE LAST SECRET
You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy
Independent
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
Jonathan Coe, Books of the Year, Guardian
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
Kate Mosse, The Times
Page by page, the funniest book of the year
Uncut
Perfect for the beach or summer in the city
In Style
A delicious love story
Sunday Herald
A smart comedy, packed with the mistakes, mismatches and meandering conversations that make up real life
Book of the Month, Marie Claire
A modern fairy tale, slickly put together. A gifted story-teller with lots of technical savvy
Scottish Review of Books
A compulsive read you'll want to devour in one sitting
Woman
A cross between Jonathan Coe and Nick Hornby, this is romantic, sharp and very English
Scotsman
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?
Top 10 Summer Books, Elle
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
As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised
Esquire
Warm-hearted, funny, endearing
Sydney Morning Herald