What can I say? This book totally blew me away. It follows Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley, a pair who had a failed one night stand on the night of graduation from university. They don’t have sex, but they end up talking all night and spend the next day together. Each chapter follows them one year later - their relationships, their struggles, their obvious (to everyone but them) love for one another. It is a twenty year love affair which just draws you in so tight, I kept wanting to get back to them.

There is a quote on the back from Jonathan Coe, which is “You really do put the book down with the hallucinatory feeling that they’ve become as well known to you as your closest friends.” And it is so true. I feel as though I know them and I love them. Of course it is sad - you know from the first page it is not going to end in happily ever after, so I’m not giving anything away there. I just spent fifteen minutes crying into the book on the tube as I got to the last chapters. So moving, so well written. I just absolutely loved it. Buy it, borrow it, steal it, but read it.

One Day by David Nicholls