From Publishers Weekly
The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (The
Understudy) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its
inevitable film adaptation. (It's already in development.) The
episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two
decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public
school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass, meet the day
they graduate from university in 1988 and
run circles around one another for the next 20 years. Dex becomes a
TV presenter whose life of sex, booze, and drugs spins out of
control, while Em dully slogs her way through awful jobs before
becoming the author of young adult books. They each take other
lovers and spouses, but they cannot really live without each
other. Nicholls is a glib, clever writer,
and while the formulaic feel and maudlin ending aren't ideal for a
book, they'll play in the multiplex. (June)
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