One Day
David Nicholls, One Day
David Nicholls
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Binding:Paperback Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2010-02-04
Edition: unknown
ISBN: 0340896981
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Synopsis
  • 'A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. The best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!' The Times

Customer Reviews
  • 5 Stars Excellent by KevD -
  • Thought this would be a nice light read for the holidays but it really exceeded my expectations. Yes, it is very easy to read, but the characters have real depth and I couldn't put it down. Best book I have read this year and I have read a few good ones.
  • 0 people found this review helpful.
  • 5 Stars Tess moved me this way by R. W. M. Lally - Watford, UK
  • I am struggling to find words to describe this book. I want everyone to read this book! I have not been so impressed by an author since the first time I read Martin Amis (not that David Nicholl's style is anything like Amis') which is a long time ago now.

    I cannot do justice to this book, the best thing I can come up with is: the style is weightlessly modern, the spirit is Thomas Hardy.
  • 0 people found this review helpful.
  • 5 Stars Great Read by M. Lidster-griffiths - Wales
  • I loved this book and would seriously recommend it. I thought the dynamics between the characters were so real and you are totally able to relate to them and their situations. Dexter's vanity and downfall were so realistic, I definitely know people like that. His kind of arrogance and entitlement are offputting but at the same time charismatic. Dexter's inner dialogue and struggle to reconcile his desire to be good and deserving of the few people he truly loved (his mother and Emma) with his desire to just live without thought of consequences to his actions at that time managed to build a recognisible character. Knowing that Dexter had some kind of conscious and could feel remorse but his weakness for his compulsive desires made him understandable.

    Overall, the characters were very honest, in their actions and their dialogue. There's a point when Dexter tells Emma that he really truly loves her but he just wants to jump every girl he sees regardless, and he's not sure how to get past that. The love between Dexter and Emma was also something that the reader can relate to just loving someone but not being able to figure out how to get to a place where it will work or is reciprocated. Great book!
  • 0 people found this review helpful.
  • 5 Stars One Day by David Nicholls by Mrs Chris Turner -
  • Sort of a cross between Bridgit Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding and Notting Hill by Richard Curtis.
    Liked it immensely, and found it very true to life.
  • 1 people found this review helpful.
  • 5 Stars Brilliant, funny, moving. by FilmFan -
  • More than just a 'lad's mag' novel (as the cover and synopsis suggested to me) this is one of the most beautiful, perfect and substantial novels I have ever had the pleasure to read. This book became my life for three days. I have never laughed nor cried as much at any other book. That's saying a lot because I am an avid reader!

    This book hasn't just made my top ten, it has made my top three. I have rarely felt so moved by, so amused by, and so part of a story. I am ten years younger than the book's characters, having graduated in 1998, yet so many memories of growing up in this era have been resurrected to razor-sharp reminiscence. Every chapter is a short story in itself, an intricate series of tableaux painted with love, depth, and painstaking detail, and put together they form a masterpiece of our times. Wonderful.
  • 0 people found this review helpful.