News of the World I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't love this book. Deserves to be the must-read hit of the summer. Nicholls is an expert at capturing that essence of young adulthood, first love, heartbreak, and the tangled, complicated course of romance.

TheIndependent(London) We may have found the novel of the year-a brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades. Kate Mosse You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em. Jenny Colgan l The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have -Adele Parks l I really loved it. Most of all it is horribly, cringingly, absolutely 100% honest and true to life: I lived every page. Tony Parsons The funniest, loveliest book I've read in ages. And every writer will wish they had written it. the best weird love story sinceThe Time Traveler's Wife. I can't wait.-Daily Mail A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are. The feel good film must surely be just around the corner. If you left college sometime in the eighties with no clear idea of what was going to happen next, or who your lifelong friends might turn out to be, this one's a definite for your holiday suitcase. Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation. Daily Mirror 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. One Dayis destined to be a modern classic. His characterisation is utterly convincing. TheGuardian(London) has both a very deft prose style and a great understanding of human emotion. Nicholls's witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don't notice all the hard work that it's doing.-The Times(London) Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound. the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!. Nick Hornby, from his blog A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. the perfect beach read for people who are normally repelled by the very idea of beach reads.

brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life. Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable.

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