One Day

A wonderful evocation of a modern love affair

Lightly done, but saved from schmaltz by rueful wit and lashings of cringe-inducing nostalgia

Clever, funny and poignant

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

Fabulous . . . I couldn't put it down . . . It's brilliant

I found it totally gripping. The characters are complex, the locations familiar. I don't want to give away the ending but everyone who reads it agrees how powerful it is.

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

One Day is destined to be a modern classic

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

An unputdownable romance for the 21st century

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

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

Nicholls' unmatchable gift for dialogue and romantic plotting

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 pleasingly collaborative reading experience

A modern classic

One of the most tear-jerking novels ever written

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

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

Captivating

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare

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

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

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?

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

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

Warm-hearted, funny, endearing

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. Hard to imagine anyone encountering characters as well drawn as this and not recognizing the extraordinary talent of the writer who has created them.

Incredibly moving

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.

Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life . . . the perfect beach read for people who are normally repelled by the very idea of beach reads

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

I really loved it . . . it's absolutely wonderful . . . just so moving and engaging

You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em

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

With its beautifully rounded, real characters and deeply poignant storytelling, this is one of the year's best novels.

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 . . . 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. If you didn't, it still is . . . The feelgood film must surely be just around the corner. I can't wait.

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

A moving and feel-good read. Nicholls is an expert at capturing that essence of young adulthood, first love, heartbreak, and the tangled, complicated course of romance . . . Deserves to be the must-read hit of the summer.

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 written a warm, witty, smart and sad novel, and maybe one of the best books of the year

You're gripped from the opening pages . . . Nicholls, author of STARTER FOR TEN, writes faultless, engaging dialogue and keeps up a cracking pace. You will find this hard to put down

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

An off-kilter romantic comedy with charm to spare

An edgy romantic tale

Snort-out-loud stuff . . . it deserves to be a huge hit