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David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014.
Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home.
He… (more)
David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014.
Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home.
He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together.
So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again.
The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.
What could possibly go wrong?
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (September 30, 2014)
Page count: 400 pages
Protection: DRM
Language: English
Us is very David Nicholls, but with the next novel he might usefully let himself go a bit more.
BookOxygen : Us by David Nicholls (September 29, 2014)Nicholls is excellent at nearest-and-dearest dialogue as well, skilfully capturing the tense, stilted conversations between father and teenage son.
The Telegraph : Us by David Nicholls, review: 'a quiet joy' (September 26, 2014)Us is a quiet joy, written with an undemonstrative simplicity that is hard to achieve
I thought it was a kind of redemption story
(April 22, 2015)
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter. Us is his fourth novel and was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.