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One day author david nicholls6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation. Daily Mirror 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. One Dayis destined to be a modern classic. ![]() His characterisation is utterly convincing. TheGuardian(London) has both a very deft prose style and a great understanding of human emotion. Nicholls's witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don't notice all the hard work that it's doing.-The Times(London) Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound. the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!. Nick Hornby, from his blog A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. the perfect beach read for people who are normally repelled by the very idea of beach reads. brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life. Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable. ![]()
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