The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. He just thought they’d be doing their rediscovering together. ‘Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?’ĭouglas Petersen understands his wife’s need to ‘rediscover herself’ now that their son is leaving home. Me and you, growing old and dying together.’ ‘I was looking forward to us growing old together.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. My only niggle of doubt was it was about 50 somethings rather than 30 somethings this time – and I thought it might be out of my reference points (being such a spring chicken!!)ĭavid 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. I really enjoyed ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls a few years ago (although have avoided the film, as I think it would be pointless to watch it having read the book) – so I had high expectations of Us.
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