One Day

The multi-million copy bestselling novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation.
From beloved author David Nicholls.

One Day is destined to be a modern classic

Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable

A wonderful, wonderful book

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

A genuine tear-jerker as well as laugh-out-loud funny

This perfectly executed novel is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is

The book I go back to time and time again is One Day by David Nicholls. I read it every couple of years. It's perfect

A modern classic

One of the most tear-jerking novels ever written

I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book

Re-reading One Day by David Nicholls is another version of putting on a Nora Ephron movie . It never gets old because the pleasure and comfort is in the language and the observations and the characters

One Day changed my life

Captivating

You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy

David Nicholls portrays the bittersweet experience of being a young man so brilliantly

A total treat . . . by turns bittersweet, funny, touching and sad , but always Nicholls's wonderfully observant and wry touch shines through. A way-we-live-now parable about relationships, disappointments, friendship and expectations; a novel utterly comfortable in its own skin

An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare

It's rare to find a novel which ranges over the recent past with such authority, and even rarer to find one in which the two leading characters are drawn with such solidity, such painful fidelity to real life that you really do put the book down with the hallucinatory feeling that they've become as well known to you as your closest friends

Nicholls has a gimlet eye for period detail . . . A beguiling read

A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are . . . the best weird love story since The Time Traveller's Wife . Every reader will fall in love with it. And every writer will wish they had written it

Who doesn't relish a love story with the right amount of heart-melting romance , disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarrelling meant-to-be lovers?

As a study of what we once were and what we can become, it's masterfully realised

A brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades

With a nod to When Harry Met Sally , this funny, emotionally engaging third novel from David Nicholls traces the unlikely relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew . . . Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation

Nicholls captures superbly the ennui of post graduation . . . The writing is almost faultless , there's a great feeling for the period and it's eminently readable

Nicholls has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that's wholly his own . . . [A] light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying

David Nicholls's One Day needs a special mention for its perfect encapsulation of Edinburgh's university experience. The novel takes place mostly in London but its two main characters meet as students here and almost - but not quite - fall for each other. Therein lies the tale

A pleasingly collaborative reading experience

The funniest, loveliest book I've read in ages . Most of all it is horribly, cringingly, absolutely 100% honest and true to life: I lived every page

The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have

Warm-hearted, funny, endearing

Page by page, the funniest book of the year

Perfect for the beach or summer in the city

A delicious love story

A smart comedy, packed with the mistakes, mismatches and meandering conversations that make up real life

A modern fairy tale, slickly put together . A gifted story-teller with lots of technical savvy

A compulsive read you'll want to devour in one sitting

A cross between Jonathan Coe and Nick Hornby , this is romantic, sharp and very English

Nicholls' unmatchable gift for dialogue and romantic plotting

An unputdownable romance for the 21st century

If you're one of the very few people on the planet who haven't yet read One Day, this modern classic is a hard recommend. Nicholls's story of love lost and found over decades is a tear-jerker full of charm and heart.

[O]ne of my favourite books

David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us, Sweet Sorrow and You Are Here. One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim: translated into 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide. His fourth novel, Us, was long-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction. His latest novel, You Are Here, was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller on publication. On screen, David has written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd, When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations, as well as of his own novels, Starter for Ten, One Day and Us. His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer. The Netflix adaptation of One Day was executive-produced by David.