5/8/2023 0 Comments One Day by David Nicholls![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The girl has pined for the boy for years the boy is more aware of the girl than he lets on. In 1988, the day after commencement, two college graduates briefly, romantically collide. Those of us susceptible to nostalgic reveries of youthful heartache and self-invention (which is to say, all of us) longed to get our hands on Nicholls’s new novel, once our friend revealed its premise: Called “One Day,” it was written by David Nicholls, whom some of us recognized as the author of another novel, “Starter for Ten,” a coming-of-age story about a working-class boy who goes to an elite university, falls in love with a girl who’s out of his league (and not nearly as nice as he is) and enters an intercollegiate quiz contest. Last summer, at a beach house in the Hamptons, a weekend guest arrived carrying a novel she’d picked up abroad and was loath to put down. ![]()
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