One Day
One day - by David Nicholls
One day is a romantic story about two people (Emma and Dexter). Who spend the night together on their graduation day on July 15th. at Edinburgh University. They become best friends, but fail to come together romantically, until it almost is too late. The story follows how the two friends’ relationship develops. Each chapter tells the story of the same day (July 15th) every year. Where we experience Emma and Dexter’s life sometimes together, mostly separately some of these years they are close geographically and/or emotionally; other years they are not, but they are always somehow tied to the other, thinking of the other on the same day every year, over the next 20 years.
One day is not like every other of those romantic boring novels, you have read before. The book gives an excellent characterization of two people; in their relationship to each other and also of their separate lives. The book really makes you feel like, you actually know the two protagonists.
Emma is this hard working middleclass woman, who for a long time works as a waitress in a horrible restaurant, but her ambitions is to become a teacher and fulfil her dream as a novelist. While Dexter is this over class guy, who gets things quite easy in the beginning, and becomes a successful television presenter, but as the years keep going by, everything starts to get harder for him.
From the start it is fantastic to follow these two people’s lives, and you do not want it to end. You want to keep following their life and with that ending you are left shocked unsatisfied.
David Nicholls had me hooked right away with this book; I just could not stop reading, and I lived every chapter. It is a hilarious, witty, wise, moving, heartbreaking and realistic love story, there definitely will make you laugh out loud and maybe cry. This is one of best books I have ever read. In his way of telling the story, have I never seen or maybe not so completed before, in such way that it
One day is a romantic story about two people (Emma and Dexter). Who spend the night together on their graduation day on July 15th. at Edinburgh University. They become best friends, but fail to come together romantically, until it almost is too late. The story follows how the two friends’ relationship develops. Each chapter tells the story of the same day (July 15th) every year. Where we experience Emma and Dexter’s life sometimes together, mostly separately some of these years they are close geographically and/or emotionally; other years they are not, but they are always somehow tied to the other, thinking of the other on the same day every year, over the next 20 years.
One day is not like every other of those romantic boring novels, you have read before. The book gives an excellent characterization of two people; in their relationship to each other and also of their separate lives. The book really makes you feel like, you actually know the two protagonists.
Emma is this hard working middleclass woman, who for a long time works as a waitress in a horrible restaurant, but her ambitions is to become a teacher and fulfil her dream as a novelist. While Dexter is this over class guy, who gets things quite easy in the beginning, and becomes a successful television presenter, but as the years keep going by, everything starts to get harder for him.
From the start it is fantastic to follow these two people’s lives, and you do not want it to end. You want to keep following their life and with that ending you are left shocked unsatisfied.
David Nicholls had me hooked right away with this book; I just could not stop reading, and I lived every chapter. It is a hilarious, witty, wise, moving, heartbreaking and realistic love story, there definitely will make you laugh out loud and maybe cry. This is one of best books I have ever read. In his way of telling the story, have I never seen or maybe not so completed before, in such way that it