One Day
David Nicholls • 2009
Devastation Rating
love loss grief literary fiction
Our Take
Emma and Dexter meet once a year on the same date, and Nicholls traces their near-misses across two decades. When the ending arrives it is so sudden and so final that it rewrites every page that came before. The cruelty is in the ordinariness of it — no warning, no meaning, just gone.
Appears In
Also available as an audiobook without an Audible subscription. See audiobook options →
This page contains affiliate links. If you buy a book through one of these links, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure →