One Day
Now a major Netflix series
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4.1 • 100 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
In ONE DAY PLUS you can get closer to Em and Dex than ever before.
As well as the original bestselling novel this enhanced edition contains never-before-seen footage of David Nicholls discussing One Day and the film adaptation, at an exclusive event during the iTunes Festival on St Swithin’s Day, 15th July 2011.
This edition also includes the International trailer for the film directed by Lone Scherfig, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.
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?
Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (The Understudy) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It's already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass, meet the day they graduate from university in 1988 and run circles around one another for the next 20 years. Dex becomes a TV presenter whose life of sex, booze, and drugs spins out of control, while Em dully slogs her way through awful jobs before becoming the author of young adult books. They each take other lovers and spouses, but they cannot really live without each other. Nicholls is a glib, clever writer, and while the formulaic feel and maudlin ending aren't ideal for a book, they'll play in the multiplex.
Customer Reviews
A page turner
The characters are believable and the story moving and real. The book captures naturalism, and believability in a way that makes you empathize with characters strength's and weaknesses. It is cleverly structured and well paced. An emotional journey, cleverly crafted that is hard to put down.