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I Really Loved It . . . Itls Absolutely ‘A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL BOOK: WISE, FUNNY, PERCEPTIVE, COMPASSIONATE AND OFTEN UNBEARABLY SAD . THE BEST BRITISH SOCIAL NOVEL SINCE JONATHAN Coe’s WHAT A CARVE up!’ THE TIMES ‘probABLY MY BOOK ‘THE FEELGOOD FILM MUST OF THE YEAr’ SURELY BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. HARRIET EVANS, GUARDIAN I CAn’t wAIT.’ DAILY MAIL ‘AS A STUDY OF WHAT WE ONCE WERE AND WHAT WE CAN BECOME, it’s mAsteRFULLY REALISEd’ ESQUIRE ‘WITH ITS BEAUTIFULLY ROUNDED, ‘THE ULTIMATE REAL CHARACTERS AND DEEPLY ZEITGEIST POIGNANT STORYTELLING, THIS IS ONE LOVE STORY OF THE YEAr’s FOR ANYONE WHO EVER BEST NOVELS.’ WANTED SOMEONE THEY HEAT couldn’t hAve’ ADELE PARKS ‘i reAllY LOVED IT . it’s ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL . JUST SO MOVING AND ENGAging’ KATE MOSSE ‘FABULOUS . I couldn’t put it doWN . It’s brilliAnt’ FAY RIPLEY OneDay_prelims_bPB.indd 2 7/12/09 16:20:14 172JJ_tx.indd 2 12/08/2014 09:38 ‘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 TRAVELER’s WIFE. EVERY READER WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH IT. AND EVERY WRITER WILL ‘nicholls cAPTURES WISH THEY HAD WRITTEN IT.’ SUPERBLY THE ENNUI TONY PARSONS OF POST GRADUATION . THE WRITING IS ALMOST FAULTLESS.’ HERALD ‘It’s rARE TO FIND A ‘THE FUNNIEST, NOVEL WHICH RANGES OVER THE RECENT PAST LOveliest book’ JENNY COLGAN WITH SUCH AUTHORITY, AND EVEN RARER TO FIND ONE IN WHICH THE TWO LEADING CHARACTERS ARE DRAWN WITH SUCH SOLIDITY, SUCH PAINFUL FIDELITY, GUARDIAN BOOKS TO REAL LIFE’ JONATHAN COE, OF THE YEAR 2009 ‘You’d be hARD PRESSED TO FIND A SHARPER, SWEETER ROMANTIC COMEDY THIS YEAR THAN THE STORY OF DEX AND Em’ INDEPENDENT ‘wARM-HEARTED, FUNNY, endeAring’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ‘BIG, ABSORBING, SMART, FANTASTICALLY READABLE . BRILLIANT ON THE DETAILS OF THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES OF BRITISH CULTURAL AND POLITICAl life’ NICK HORNBY 172JJ_tx.inddOneDay_prelims_bPB.indd 3 3 12/08/20147/12/09 16:20:14 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page iii David Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. His TV credits include the third series of Cold Feet, Rescue Me, and I Saw You, as well as a much-praised modern version of Much Ado About Nothing and an adapta- tion of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, both for BBC TV. His most recent script for television was the BBC drama The 7:39, starring Olivia Colman and David Morrissey. David has continued to write for film and TV as well as writing novels, and he has twice been nominated for BAFTA awards. David’s bestselling first novel, STARTER FOR TEN, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2004, and David has written the screenplays for film versions of both STARTER FOR TEN (released in 2006, starring James McAvoy) and THE UNDERSTUDY (not yet released). David Nicholls’ third novel, ONE DAY, was published in hardback in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on publication. It has since gone on to sell over two and a half million copies and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. ONE DAY won the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award. David wrote the screenplay for Lone Scherfig’s film adaptation starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, which was released in 2010. To find out more about David Nicholls and his forthcoming novel, US, visit his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/davidnichollsauthor. 172JJ_tx.indd 4 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page iii 172JJ_tx.indd 5 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page vi 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page v First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Hodder & Stoughton An Hachette UK company First published in paperback in 2010 This paperback edition first published in2014 1 Copyright © David Nicholls 2014 To Max and Romy, for when you’re older. The right of David Nicholls to be identified as the Author of the Work has And Hannah, as always. been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ‘Days’ taken from The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin © 1964, used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Burning the Days by James Salter © 1997, used by permission of International Creative Management All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 0 340 89698 3 Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Hodder & Stoughton policy is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 338 Euston Road London NW1 3BH www.hodder.co.uk 172JJ_tx.indd 6 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page vi 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page v To Max and Romy, for when you’re older. And Hannah, as always. 172JJ_tx.indd 7 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page viii 172JJ_tx.indd 8 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page viii 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page vii ‘What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields.’ Philip Larkin, ‘Days’ 172JJ_tx.indd 9 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page 1 Part One 1988–1992 Early Twenties ‘That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.’ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 172JJ_tx.indd 10 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page 1 Part One 1988–1992 Early Twenties ‘That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.’ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 172JJ_tx.indd 1 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page 2 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page 3 chapter one The Future friday 15 july 1988 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh ‘I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of differ- ence,’ she said. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.’ They lay in silence for a moment, bodies curled around each other in the single bed, then both began to laugh in low, pre- dawn voices. ‘Can’t believe I just said that,’ she groaned. ‘Sounds a bit corny, doesn’t it?’ ‘A bit corny.’ ‘I’m trying to be inspiring! I’m trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you.’ She turned to face him. ‘Not that you need it. I expect you’ve got your future nicely mapped out, ta very much. Probably got a little flow-chart somewhere or something.’ ‘Hardly.’ ‘So what’re you going to do then? What’s the great plan?’ ‘Well, my parents are going to pick up my stuff, dump it at theirs, then I’ll spend a couple of days in their flat in London, see some friends. Then France—’ ‘Very nice—’ ‘Then China maybe, see what that’s all about, then maybe onto India, travel around there for a bit—’ ‘Travelling,’ she sighed. ‘So predictable.’ ‘What’s wrong with travelling?’ 3 172JJ_tx.indd 2 12/08/2014 09:38 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page 2 146P_tx.qxd:146P_tx 5/8/14 12:22 Page 3 chapter one The Future friday 15 july 1988 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh ‘I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of differ- ence,’ she said. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.’ They lay in silence for a moment, bodies curled around each other in the single bed, then both began to laugh in low, pre- dawn voices.
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