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The Booker Prize-longlisted novel from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2015
Summary
David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014.
‘I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.’
‘Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?’
Douglas Petersen understands his wife’s need to ‘rediscover herself’ now that t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340897010 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340897015 |
| Author: | David Nicholls |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After. - Jojo Moyes
Wonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it. - S J WatsonWonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it. - S J WatsonA wrenching examination of a journey through Europe that goes terribly wrong and a consideration of what it means to be a parent today. - Philip Hensher, GuardianAs many emotions as air miles - Damian Barr, ObserverNicholls writes with such tender precision about love, this time about a type of relationship often neglected as unsexy - the long-married couple. Yet greater longevity, female economic independence and the baby-boomer sense of entitlement to perpetual happiness has led to a spike in fiftysomething divorces. Long marriages are no longer seen as becalmed seas, albeit with chilly, hidden depths, but in as constant flux as younger partnerships. Nicholls has demographics on his side, along with his wry, plaintive but ever hopeful words. - Janice Turner, The TimesAbout The Author
David Nicholls
Galaxy Book Award-winner (ONE DAY), Richard and Judy bestseller (STARTER FOR TEN), BAFTA Award nominee (GREAT EXPECTATIONS) and now Man Booker Longlisted (US) author David Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing.
As well as his multimillion-copy bestselling novels STARTER FOR TEN, THE UNDERSTUDY and ONE DAY, David is a scriptwriter whose credits include the TV series Cold Feet, Rescue Me, I Saw You, the TV movies The 7:39 and Aftersun, and screenplays for Far From the Madding Crowd, Great Expectations, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and When Did You Last See Your Father?
He has also written the screenplays for the film adaptations of his own novels, STARTER FOR TEN (2006) which starred James McAvoy, ONE DAY (2010), starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, and the forthcoming THE UNDERSTUDY (release TBC).
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