One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim. Nicholls' book is the sort of thing you can't put down, and I read it over a weekend, creeping upstairs to gulp down another chapter when I should have been downstairs preparing dinner of helping with homework - Dylan Jonesĭavid Nicholls is the bestselling author of Sweet Sorrow, Us, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em - Independent I am not ashamed to say that upon finishing it I pressed it to my chest as a big fat tear splashed onto its upturned spine - The Times Book Club It is a cleverly and astutely constructed book - but that is worthy of a mere footnote compared with its emotional impact. The novel of the year - a brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades - Heat brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life - Nick Hornby The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have - Adele Parksīig, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable. I wish I'd written this book - Marian Keyes I finished it last night and I'm still quite wobbly and affected by it.

Jonathan Coe Guardian Books of the Year Hard to imagine anyone encountering characters as well drawn as this and not recognizing the extraordinary talent of the writer who has created them. 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.

Praise for One Day: Soon to be a Netflix TV series

2009 novel by david nicholls