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David Nicholls | € 12.99
subject: Fiction,
ISBN: 9780340994689 | ISBN-10: 0340994681
Hodder & Stoughton General Division | publication date: 02/2010
UK Edition | Paperback | 448 pages|
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description It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.
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ABC & Xpat Journal Spring 2010 pick by: Hayley from ABC Amsterdam 31-03-2010
In England in the late 80's, the hopelessly mismatched Dexter and Emma have just celebrated their graduation with a one night stand. As they lie in bed afterwards, Emma wonders aloud what they will be like at forty. They part ways, but we revisit them on the same day, each year for the next twenty years, watching them grow older, and grow apart, one of them soaring while the other descends, until they finally realise that they are better people when they are together. And then the story really starts.

One Day is a throw-back to the high-concept man-child-becomes-man Bridget Jones-esque romances that were so popular at the end of the last century. Nicholls adopts the formula but adds a dash of Thomas Hardy and gives it a hefty twist. There's no mushy romance here: we spend most of the novel desperately hoping that the horrid Dexter and lovely Emma will not become a couple. The characters are rich and believable and there's just enough period detail to evoke the social and political feel of the 80's and 90's without making it a book about the 80's and 90's. There are some toe-curlingly accurate observations on the human condition, razor-sharp one liners and devastating emotional punches. One Day is a charming and very readable book that will stay with you days after you reluctantly finish the last chapter.
This review refers to the Paperback edition