'A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. The friendship at the heart of this novel is best expressed within the pitch-perfect dialogue/banter between the two.' - Very Short List 'A great, funny, and heart-breaking read.' - The Early Show 'Who doesn't relish a love story with the right amount of heart-melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling meant-to-be lovers?' - Elle, Top 10 Summer Books for 2010 You may not be the only one who wants in on the answers.' - New York Times Book Review 'Those of us susceptible to nostalgic reveries of youthful heartache and self-invention (which is to say, all of us) longed to get our hands on Nicholls's new novel.And if you do, you may want to take care where you lay this book down. 'Fluid, expertly paced, highly observed, and at times, both funny and moving.' - Boston Globe Whatever emotion, all will feel uncontrollable precisely like the lives of the characters you so badly want to see end up together.' - Seattle Post Intelligencer At times, you will experience 'can't breathe' laughter, then 'publicly embarrassing' sobs. ' will leave you hungrily eating up the words. 'Nicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like Nick Hornby at his best.' - The Daily Beast (A Best Book of the Summer) light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying.' - Entertainment Weekly ' has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that's wholly his own. 'Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable.' - Nick Hornby, from his blog

' instant classic.One of the most hilarious and emotionally riveting love stories you'll ever encounter.' - People If you didn't, it still is.' - Daily Mail (UK) If you left college sometime in the eighties with no clear idea of what was going to happen next, or who your lifelong friends might turn out to be, this one's a definite for your holiday suitcase. Told with toe-curlingly accurate insight and touching observation. With a nod to When Harry Met Sally, this funny, emotionally engaging third novel from David Nicholls traces the unlikely relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew.

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