So I hit upon this idea of just taking a day, seemingly at random, and showing that day 20 times. Yet to cover 20 years seemed sort of exhausting. I myself turned 40 while I was - when I was about to start the book, and I was interested in the difference between my 20-year-old self and my 40-year-old self. NICHOLLS: Well, I wanted to write something quite epic, something about a large period of time and a large cast of characters. SIMON: And talk about this technique of picking one day over a time span of 20 years. DAVID NICHOLLS (Author, "One Day"): It's a pleasure. "One Day" has just been published in the United States in time for July 15th, and David Nicholls joins us from London. Nick Hornby, the novelist, calls it the perfect beach read for people who are normally repelled by the very idea of beach reads. But readers of David Nicholls' novel "One Day," which has been one of the most popular recent books in Britain, will know that July 15, 1988, is the day that Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet on their last day of school in Scotland, then go their separate ways.Įach chapter of the novel is a snapshot of where July 15 finds Emma and Dexter over the next 20 years, as they keep finding and just missing each other, with dialogue thats been acclaimed for its crackling wit and observations. For most of us, it's another day in the middle of summer.
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