One Day, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
by Patrick O'Connor
WE first meet Emma and Dexter on Friday, July 15, 1988, lying side by side each other in bed in a “shabby rented room” in Edinburgh.
Emma and Dexter are in their early 20s and are about to leave university. They ended up together after a drunken post-graduation celebration but this is no frantic, lustful liaison.