One Day

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet on the night of their graduation from Edinburgh University, on 15 July 1988. The novel revisits them on that same date every year for the next two decades, from their first awkward morning together through years of friendship, rivalry, ambition, failure and love. Emma wants to change the world with her writing, while Dexter drifts into television fame and excess. Their lives pull apart and back together, and the book asks what it means to find the right person at the wrong time.