One Day in December: A Novel (Unabridged)
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The perfect book to get lost in this holiday season . . . Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost
“Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.”—Reese Witherspoon (A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick)
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.
Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Josie Silver’s debut novel breathes a touch of magic into the 21st-century romantic comedy. The story starts with a love-at-first-sight missed connection at a London bus stop and evolves into a breathlessly hopeful search that always seems to teeter on the brink of utter tragedy. With conversational ease, Eleanor Tomlinson and Charlie Anson narrate alternate chapters from the points of view of Silver’s utterly charming protagonists, Laurie and Jack. One Day in December reminds us of the best parts of Love Actually and Something Borrowed, serving up a healthy dose of romantic optimism and smart, fizzy comedy.
Customer Reviews
Inevitably ending but awesome!!
Great!
Great Winter Read
Very cute love story that was fun to listen to through the holiday season. Lots of unexpected twists to really keep you guessing.
Pick Me Villian MC
I deeply hated this book. Both of the main characters were consistently extremely selfish terrible people, and I was very confused that I was supposed to be rooting for them. Jack, especially, was abusive and or dismissive in every relationship with a woman he was in. It was confounding that anyone loved him. Also, the fact that they were in ‘love’ bc they saw each other for 2 seconds and exchanged no words, and used that as an excuse to sneak around behind the ‘best friends’ back was gross. Lauri was a terrible friend, and Jack was a terrible boyfriend. It felt like reading the memoir of the side chick and all her validations of why she’s not the villain when she obviously is 😂
I would have thought this book was romantic when I was 13 and didn’t know what a healthy relationship is or when I was a pick me girl that didn’t know how important friendship is