Something like One Day?

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Like the rest of the world and it's wife, I've been zooming through One Day on Netflix, and it's reminded me how much I enjoyed the book. Can anyone recommend something similarly engrossing (nothing dark or disturbing please). I haven't read anything that's really gripped me in what feels like years!

Love https://g.co/kgs/VRcPxwJ

Six Feet Under https://g.co/kgs/2B2MhpD (if you didn't already see it when it was on TV 20 years ago)

Sorry, I meant book recommendations (although I did love both Love and Six Feet Under!). I seem to find finding things to watch much easier than finding things to read.

Or did you mean books? Sorry. I just read Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingslover and I loved it.

I liked the versions of us by Laura Barnett. It tells the story of the same couple in three different ways. Maggie O’Farrell’s the hand that first held mine is wonderful. Two different story lines from different eras. And I really enjoyed the garden of lost and found by Harriet Evans.

"Versions of Us" by Laura Barnett has a One Day feel. "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell deserved all of the hype a couple of years ago. "Bournville" by Jonathan Coe is a good easy read - my favourite Christmas present book. And I've just reread my favourite ever novel, "Moon Tiger" by Penelope Lively. Hope you find something you enjoy from someone"s suggestions, come back and tell us. 😀

Cross posted with @HDready ! Haven't found anyone else who has read Versions of Us so quite funny to read that.

Have you read Normal People by Sally Rooney?

Same! I’m now going to read Moon Tiger on your recommendation, thank you!

Have you read David Nichol's other books? They are all fab

Really hope you enjoy it. Lots of pondering on history and seeing things from different perspectives. Plus a love story at the heart of the book. It won the Booker Prize in the late 80s and is now somewhat overlooked.

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I've definitely read the follow up book to One Day, I'll have to check out his others too.

His recent one about a lad joining an am dram group one summer is beautiful.

Maybe Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell? Doesn't play with time but has a similarly likeable yet up and down couple. Bit less high brow I suppose!

Oh yes, I love Ralph’s Party (not as keen on the sequel). Feel like I have found my people on this thread!

I loved One Day but hated Us also written by David Nicholls. Anything by Mike Gayle is worth reading particularly Half a World Away.

His other books aren’t quite as good (imo) though DH is a big fan of starter for ten. More historical in timeline but William Boyd is another of my favourites, especially Any Human Heart, The Romantic and Love is Blind - similar in feel as they cover the main character’s entire lifetime. Also The Time Travellers Wife is a favourite of mine but I know it can be a bit marmite!

I'm going to start with Moon Tiger, as that's available to borrow now on Libby.

Another vote for Any Human Heart, an absolute favourite for both me and DH.
And you can watch the miniseries after reading.

I was going to suggest You, Me and the Movies by Fiona Collins which I loved, and also by same author Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us. Lovely easy reads spanning time.

Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday reminded me of One Day whilst reading it.

Enjoyable, easy and interesting.

Normal People.- book or series

I really enjoyed What Time is Love by Holly Williams recently - I always enjoy 'what if' books, and this one imagines what would happen to the same couple if they got together at different points in the 20th century. A really clever concept and v funny too.

I’ve just read Once Upon A Leap Year by Anna Bell which has a similar structure to One Day - it follows a couple who meet on their leap year birthdays age 20 and then catches up with them every leap year birthday after that for the next 20 years. Bit more chicklit than One Day but the same time jump idea.

Patrick Gale's books have a similar feel.

The Flat Share by Beth O'Leary is good too.

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers

My favourite book of all time is not vey well known but called 'blood sugar' by Susannah Dunn and has the same format as every chapter is a different year starting in 1981. It's about a group of friends starting in sixth form and how their lives change and interact or move away over the next ten years, very British, very coming of age, very 80s. I absolutely adore it and I think you can still get it second hand but not sure about on kindle