Us (the Booker Prize-longlisted Novel From The Author Of One Day And You Are Here)

By (author) David Nicholls
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From beloved bestseller David Nicholls comes a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children.
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From beloved bestseller David Nicholls comes a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children.
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Us: a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children | Longlisted for the Booker Prize
''Perfect''
INDEPENDENT

''I honestly can''t imagine loving a novel much more''
SUNDAY TIMES

''I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After''
JOJO MOYES

Douglas and Connie - scientist and artist, husband and wife - live a quiet and quietly unremarkable life in the suburbs of London. Until, suddenly, after more than twenty years of marriage, Connie decides she wants a divorce.

Heartbroken but determined, Douglas comes up with the perfect plan: he is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, by organising the holiday of a lifetime.

The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.

What could possibly go wrong?


ONE OF BRITAIN''S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS
''One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now''
FINANCIAL TIMES

''An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters''
DAILY TELEGRAPH

''Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love''
THE TIMES

''No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does''
EVENING STANDARD

''Genuinely brilliant''
NEW STATESMAN
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Those who loved Nicholls''s last novel, One Day, will not be disappointed. Us has many of the same qualities, including an almost magical readability. Though it is an ambitious novel, intricately patterned, which tackles complex and subtle themes, it has the furious pace of a thriller . . . I was having to ration myself for fear of coming to the end too soon
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I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After
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A literary and anthropological tour de force . . . astute and packed with brilliant observations, about life, art, culture and the infinite possibilities for human disappointment. I honestly can''t imagine loving a novel much more
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Us is a work of Cheever-esque perfection that absolutely captures the exquisite horror of not being able to do right for wrong
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A perfect book
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Nicholls, it seems, was born to write about love, in all its sweetness and bitterness . . . thoughtful, funny, authentic . . . Us begins as a sweet read, but evolves into an examination of love''s complexities - the battle between the heart and the brain . . . The kind of book that reminds us what it means to be alive
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Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love, this time about a type of relationship often neglected as unsexy - the long-married couple . . . wry, plaintive but ever hopeful
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Very funny, wise and bittersweet
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As he proved in One Day, Nicholls is brilliant at picking apart modern life with all its hopes, disillusionments and regrets, and marrying i