NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESSIt’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 … 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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Incredibly moving.
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.
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.
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.
Not the normal set up that books follow, this book focuses on one day every year for twenty or so years. It follows two friends-turned lovers, beginning at college graduation through their early forties or so. The thing I like most about this book is watching how different their lives are in every chapter of the book, whether they are in new …
I couldn’t stop reading this. I loved the characters, the plot, the honesty, the wit—and the very Englishness of it all! The movie was also great…but the book stands in a class of its own!
Typical that on the rare occasion I’ve seen the film ahead of reading the book the twist still hits me like a train and I weep gratuitously in the bath regardless.
One Day is a wonderful novel that picks up with Emma and Dexter one day every year, on the anniversary of the day they met, and shows how their relationship evolves over time. It’s a …
Gotta love Dex and Em. A heart-breaking classic that I never get tired of re-reading.
Loved this boook so much and the movie too
One Day is the journey of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, starting from their graduation from University until just shy of forty. The book is broken up into parts, the first part is the early twenties, second late twenties, third early thirties, fourth late thirties and then part five bounces back and forth through the years covering three …
Didn’t like one of the main characters at all. Couldn’t keep reading it.
Couldn’t get into it
Wonderful writing
It got tedious after a while. I would’ve cut 70 pages or so.
Twenty years, two friends, one day. An oldie but a goodie and still a favourite.
Loved this book!
Loved it!
Yes, you will shed a tear, but One Day is so worth it! A single day over the life time of what is ultimately a great love affair – you have to read it!
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 …
I thought it was boring and not much of a story. I am very critical of the books I read, however, my coworker read it and without my asking she said the same things I did. Not worth reading or buying.