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Five books to read if you fell in love with One Day
By Sally O'Reilly, The Open University
David Nicholls’s One Day is a poignant, witty depiction of love delayed, found, lost and mourned. It charts the fortunes of mismatched lovers Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley, and explores the joys and sorrows of true love. One Day is a bittersweet evocation of love’s transformative power.
The book was recently adapted by Netflix into a 14-part series. Starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall, it has had more than 15 million views.
If you fell in love with Dexter and Emma and are looking for stories that have a similar feel, here are five books you should read.
1. Starter for Ten by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2004)
This is David Nicholls’ first book, a witty campus novel which explores the issue of class and insecurity.
Clever, working class student Brian Jackson, an obsessive collector of general knowledge, lands a place on a team for TV quiz show University Challenge and falls for posh team mate Alice Harbinson, with comically disastrous consequences.
Brian is from a one-parent family in Southend-on-Sea in Essex and his mother works in Woolworths (the high street retail chain that collapsed in the UK in 2008). He is desperate – too desperate – to impress the in-crowd at his prestigious university, particularly cool-girl Alice.
The set piece in which he ends up naked in her parents’ kitchen is brilliantly funny. While the overall mood is lighter than One Day, there are some acute observations about class conflict and aspiration.
2. Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)
Celebrated for her journalism and screenwriting, Ephron wrote just one novel and it’s a modern classic. The story is based on her painful divorce from renowned Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who left her while she was pregnant with their second child.
Ephron’s takedown set the tone for other divorce novels, including Olivia Goldmsmith’s best-seller The First Wives’ Club (Poseidon Press, 1992), but few writers can match her wit. A roman-a-clef (a fictionalisation of real-life events) with thinly disguised characters, the novel spares no one.
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