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Us: The Booker Prize-longlisted novel from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
David Nicholls
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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.'I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.'
'Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?'
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?
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Praise for Us: The Booker Prize-longlisted novel from the author of ONE DAY and YOU ARE HERE
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I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After. - Jojo MoyesWonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it. - S J WatsonI loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After. - Jojo MoyesWonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it. - S J WatsonA wrenching examination of a journey through Europe that goes terribly wrong and a consideration of what it means to be a parent today. - Philip Hensher, GuardianAs many emotions as air miles - Damian Barr, ObserverNicholls writes with such tender precision about love, this time about a type of relationship often neglected as unsexy - the long-married couple. Yet greater longevity, female economic independence and the baby-boomer sense of entitlement to perpetual happiness has led to a spike in fiftysomething divorces. Long marriages are no longer seen as becalmed seas, albeit with chilly, hidden depths, but in as constant flux as younger partnerships. Nicholls has demographics on his side, along with his wry, plaintive but ever hopeful words. - Janice Turner, The Times
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