Four years have flown by since I sat in a huge marquee in Oxford and listened to David Nicholls talking about the success of One Day. His bestselling story of university friends Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew had taken the world by storm and had just been turned into a film (adapted by Nicholls himself and starring Anne Hathaway as the awkward, insecure Emma). Fans like me have been looking ...keep reading
“If you’re after a brilliantly-written love story that never slides into sentimentality, David Nicholls’s One Day is just the ticket. Nicholls trained as an actor before switching to writing – his first novel, Starter for Ten, was made into a film starring James McAvoy and Rebecca Hall and he wrote the recent TV adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles. His third novel is a funny ‘“will they, won’t they?’” romance ...keep reading