A bestselling novelist and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter British author David Nicholls trained as an actor before turning to writing full-time. He is best-known for the globally bestselling love story One Day, now a major Netflix adaptation, charting the lives of two people over 20 years on the same day, which won the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award. Subsequently made into a hit film, the book has sold over five million copies and been translated into forty languages. David Nicholls other novels include Starter for Ten, The Understudy and Us. In 2018 he received widespread critical acclaim for his adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels for a five-part television series. In 2024 he published You Are Here.
David Nicholls looks back on his smash hit bestseller One Day and the parallels and differences between it and his latest masterpiece You Are Here.
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