Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us, Sweet Sorrow and You Are Here. 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.
<i>One Day</i> is destined to be <b>a modern classic</b>
Daily Mirror
<b>Big, absorbing, smart,</b> fantastically readable
- Nick Hornby,
<b>A wonderful, wonderful book</b>
The Times
I finished it last night and I'm still quite wobbly and affected by it. It was <b>BRILLIANT </b>. . . the jealousy nearly made me puke.<b> I wish I'd written this book</b>
- Marian Keyes,
A <b>genuine tear-jerker </b>as well as <b>laugh-out-loud funny</b>
- Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday
This <b>perfectly executed novel </b>is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is
Guardian
The book I go back to time and time again is <i>One Day</i> by David Nicholls.<b> I read it every couple of years. It's perfect</b>
- Dolly Alderton, author of GHOSTS,
A modern classic
Prime
<b>One of the most tear-jerking novels ever written</b>
YOU Magazine
<b>I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book</b>
- Simon Mayo Books Panel, BBC Radio Five Live,
<b>Re-reading <i>One Day</i> by David Nicholls is another version of putting on a Nora Ephron movie</b>. 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,
<b><i>One Day</i><i> </i>changed my life</b>
- Pandora Sykes, author of HOW DO WE KNOW WE'RE DOING IT RIGHT,
<b>Captivating</b>
Hello
<b>You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy</b>
Independent
David Nicholls portrays the <b>bittersweet </b>experience of being a young man so brilliantly
iNews
<b>A total treat</b> . . . by turns <b>bittersweet, funny, touching and sad</b>, 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
<b>An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare</b>
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 <b>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</b>
- Jonathan Coe, Books of the Year, Guardian
Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A <b>beguiling </b>read
Observer
A <b>totally brilliant</b> book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are . . . the best weird love story since <i>The Time Traveller's Wife</i>. 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 <b>heart-melting romance</b>, 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 <b>masterfully realised</b>
Esquire
A <b>brilliantly funny and moving </b>will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades
Heat
With a nod to <i>When Harry Met Sally</i>, this funny, emotionally engaging third novel from David Nicholls traces the unlikely relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew . . . <b>Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation</b>
Daily Mail
Nicholls captures superbly the ennui of post graduation . . . The writing is <b>almost faultless</b>, 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 <b>so thoroughly satisfying</b>
Entertainment Weekly
David Nicholls's <i>One Day</i> 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 for each other. Therein lies the tale
New York Times
A pleasingly collaborative reading experience
Financial Times
<b>The funniest, loveliest book I've read in ages</b>. Most of all it is horribly, cringingly, absolutely 100% honest and true to life: <b>I lived every page</b>
- Jenny Colgan, author of DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?,
<b>The ultimate zeitgeist love story</b> for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have
- Adele Parks, author of ONE LAST SECRET,
Warm-hearted, funny, <b>endearing</b>
Sydney Morning Herald
Page by page, <b>the funniest book of the year</b>
Uncut
Perfect for the beach or summer in the city
In Style
A <b>delicious </b>love story
Sunday Herald
A <b>smart </b>comedy, packed with the mistakes, mismatches and meandering conversations that make up real life
Marie Claire
<b>A modern fairy tale, slickly put together</b>. A gifted story-teller with lots of technical savvy
Scottish Review of Books
A <b>compulsive </b>read you'll want to devour in one sitting
Woman
<b>A cross between Jonathan Coe and Nick Hornby</b>, this is romantic, sharp and very English
Scotsman
Nicholls' <b>unmatchable gift for dialogue and romantic plotting</b>
Evening Standard
An <b>unputdownable romance for the 21st century</b>
She
If you're one of the very few people on the planet who haven't yet read <i>One Day,</i> this modern classic is a hard recommend. Nicholls's story of love lost and found over decades is a tear-jerker full of charm and heart.
Good Housekeeping
We could fill a page with descriptive proclamations of its brilliance, but we'll stick with intoxicating, engrossing and verging on genius. If this has never graced your bedside table, then go directly to the nearest bookshop, purchase one copy and start 2010 with a read that has taken the literary world by storm
<i>Daily Record</i>
A moving and feel-good read. Nicholls is an expert at capturing that essence of young adulthood, first love, heartbreak, and the tangled, complicated course of romance . . . Deserves to be the must-read hit of the summer.
<i>News of the World</i>
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.
<i>Herald</i>
You're gripped from the opening pages . . . Nicholls, author of STARTER FOR TEN, writes faultless, engaging dialogue and keeps up a cracking pace. You will find this hard to put down
<i>Psychologies</i>
One Day: the multi-million copy bestseller, now a major Netflix series
'A wonderful, wonderful book'
THE TIMES
'Perfect'
NEW YORK TIMES
'You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy'
INDEPENDENT
TWENTY YEARS, TWO PEOPLE, ONE DAY.
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?
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
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us, Sweet Sorrow and You Are Here. 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.