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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?
"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
I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book. (Simon Mayo Books Panel, BBC Radio Five Live)
"An unputdownable romance for the 21st century." SHE
"A genuine tear-jerker as well as laugh-out-loud funny." INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (Independent on Sunday Books of the Year 2009)
"This perfectly executed novel is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is. " GUARDIAN
"Totally brilliant." TONY PARSONS
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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781407448893
- File size: 474826 KB
- Duration: 16:29:13
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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April 5, 2010
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.
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