One Day

One Day is destined to be a modern classic * Daily Mirror * Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable -- Nick Hornby A wonderful, wonderful book * The Times * I finished it last night and I'm still quite wobbly and affected by it. It was BRILLIANT . . . the jealousy nearly made me puke. I wish I'd written this book -- Marian Keyes A genuine tear-jerker as well as laugh-out-loud funny -- Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday * This perfectly executed novel is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is * Guardian * The book I go back to time and time again is One Day by David Nicholls. I read it every couple of years. It's perfect -- Dolly Alderton, author of GHOSTS A modern classic * Prime * One of the most tear-jerking novels ever written * YOU Magazine * I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book -- Simon Mayo Books Panel, BBC Radio Five Live Re-reading One Day by David Nicholls is another version of putting on a Nora Ephron movie. It never gets old because the pleasure and comfort is in the language and the observations and the characters -- Maggie Shipstead, author of GREAT CIRCLE One Day changed my life -- Pandora Sykes, author of HOW DO WE KNOW WE'RE DOING IT RIGHT Captivating * Hello * You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy * Independent * David Nicholls portrays the bittersweet experience of being a young man so brilliantly * iNews * 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 -- Kate Mosse * The Times * An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare * Harper's Bazaar * 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 -- Jonathan Coe, Books of the Year * Guardian * Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A beguiling read * Observer * A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are . . . the best weird love story since The Time Traveller's Wife. Every reader will fall in love with it. And every writer will wish they had written it -- Tony Parsons, author of THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR Who doesn't relish a love story with the right amount of heart-melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarrelling meant-to-be lovers? -- Top 10 Summer Books * Elle * As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised * Esquire * A brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades * Heat * 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 . . . Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation * Daily Mail * Nicholls captures superbly the ennui of post graduation . . . The writing is almost faultless, there's a great feeling for the period and it's eminently readable * Herald * Nicholls has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that's wholly his own . . . [A] light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying * Entertainment Weekly * David Nicholls's One Day needs a special mention for its perfect encapsulation of Edinburgh's university experience. The novel takes place mostly in London but its two main characters meet as students here and almost - but not quite - fall

David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us and Sweet Sorrow. One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim: translated into 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide. His fourth novel, Us, was longlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. On screen, David has written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd, When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations, as well as of his own novels, Starter for Ten, One Day and Us. His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer. The Netflix adaptation of One Day was executive-produced by David. David's latest novel, You Are Here, will be published in April 2024 and is available for pre-order now.