Us
The Booker Prize-longlisted novel of last-chance love from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
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Publisher Description
Us: a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children | Longlisted for the Booker Prize
'Perfect'
INDEPENDENT
'I honestly can't imagine loving a novel much more'
SUNDAY TIMES
'I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After'
JOJO MOYES
Douglas and Connie - scientist and artist, husband and wife - live a quiet and quietly unremarkable life in the suburbs of London. Until, suddenly, after more than twenty years of marriage, Connie decides she wants a divorce.
Heartbroken but determined, Douglas comes up with the perfect plan: he is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, by organising the holiday of a lifetime.
The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.
What could possibly go wrong?
ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS
'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love'
THE TIMES
'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does'
EVENING STANDARD
'Genuinely brilliant'
NEW STATESMAN
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The author of the runaway bestseller One Day tackles a different, more mature love story in the fantastically moving Us. Nominated for the Man Booker Prize longlist, David Nicholls’ novel starts when 54-year-old Douglas Petersen’s wife of more than two decades announces she’s leaving after their only son, Albie, heads to college in the autumn. Desperate to recapture Connie’s heart, Douglas organises a grand European vacation, during which he reflects on the past and attempts to mend his relationships with the two most important people in his life. Nicholls’ middle-aged narrator is a triumph: warmhearted, self-deprecating, honest—and dazzlingly human.
