| One Day | 
| Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  365 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0340896981
EAN: 9780340896983
ASIN: 0340896981
Publication Date: February 4, 2010
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'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
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 Tess moved me this way September 10, 2010
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.
Great Read September 9, 2010
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!
One Day by David Nicholls September 5, 2010
Mrs Chris Turner
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Brilliant, funny, moving. September 4, 2010
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.
 Didn't like it at first, but it really grew on me September 4, 2010
Mrs. S. R. Wray (Belfast)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At first I didn't like this book - both the characters annoyed me, especially the posh idiot, Dexter, and although I quite liked the lacking-in-self-confidence-but-funny northern lass, Emma, I didn't feel that deep of a connection with her. Perhaps that's how it is in life though, it takes a while to form a connection and years to really know and love a person and as the years (or chapter) passed, I did start to care about both characters and by the end of the book I was genuinely upset (actually I was crying like a colicky baby). The book had some very funny lines as well so I can honestly say, 'It made me laugh, it made me cry.... And at the end of the day, what more can you ask for.
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