DAVID NICHOLLS trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. He is the author of two previous novels—Starter For Ten and The Understudy. He has also written many screenplays for film and television, including the feature film adaptation of Starter For Ten. He lives in London.
"[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most hilarious and
emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter."
—People
“Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable." —Nick Hornby,
from his blog
"[Nicholls] has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional
empathy that's wholly his own. . . . [A] light but
surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying." —Entertainment
Weekly
“Nicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like
Nick Hornby at his best.” —The Daily Beast (A Best Book of the
Summer)
"Fluid, expertly paced, highly observed, and at times, both funny
and moving." —Boston Globe
"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. . . . And if you do, you may
want to take care where you lay this book down. You may not be the
only one who wants in on the answers." —New York Times Book
Review
"Who doesn’t relish a love story with the right amount of
heart-melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of
disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling
meant-to-be lovers?" —Elle, Top 10 Summer Books for 2010
“A great, funny, and heart-breaking read.” —The Early Show
[CBS]
"Funny, sweet and completely engrossing . . . The friendship at the
heart of this novel is best expressed within the pitch-perfect
dialogue/banter between the two." —Very Short List
“A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive,
compassionate and often unbearably sad . . . the best British
social novel since Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up!. . . .
Nicholls’s witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby
to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don’t notice all the
hard work that it’s doing.” —The Times (London)
“Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he
has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel
that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in
its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound.” —The
Guardian (London)
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