One Day - David Nicholls

One Day charts the relationship between Dexter and Emma over two decades, checking back on them on the same date each year. Meeting at University and developing a love/hate relationship, the friendship between these two is plausible, bumpy, bittersweet and involving. I rarely find a book to be so hard to put down from the start. The initial backdrop of University and the characters' first few years after graduating are easy to relate to, and it's easy to empathise with the highs and lows of both Dexter and Emma; particularly Emma's initial failure to set the world on fire. Both characters have major character flaws and that only makes the story more ...  Read the complete review

Dexter and Emma meet on July 15th 1988 on the night of their graduation, young and wondering what the future holds... well, Emma is at least. Dexter would like to stay exactly the way he is now. It's within the first few pages of this book that you are drawn into these 2 characters who seem just like any other 2 students about to go into the big wide world. Dexter is wanting to slip away and make excuses however, despite himself, he doesn't and the next thing you notice is it's a new chapter and the date at the top proclaims it's a whole year later on the same day and we're reading about the same 2 characters and just what has happened since that one day in ...  Read the complete review