![]() Swithin’s Day (according to the popular belief, if it rains during this day, it will keep raining for the next 40 days) marks the beginning of a special relationship between Emma and Dexter. The interesting part is that we are not being offered the whole picture: the reader is only presented with the events that take place on July 15th, each year. Starting with 1988, when the two protagonists – Emma & Dexter – meet, the story carries us through 20 eventful years. One day refers, actually, to a specific date. If the name of the author seems familiar, it’s because you’ve either seen a movie whose script was written by him, or you’ve read one of his other books: “Starter for Ten” or ” The Understudy”, both very good examples of the so called lad-lit. ![]() Don’t you just love it when a male author tells the story from a woman’s point of view and he just nails it? That’s (partially) the case with the novel One Day, by David Nicholls. ![]()
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