Us - Tapa dura

-Nicholls is a deft craftsman, a skilled storyteller and a keen observer of contemporary mores.---Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review

-A great novel...Nicholls is a master of nuanced relationships. He's also a pro at delivering a tight, clever structural narrative, as he proved in his terrific previous novel One Day.---Entertainment Weekly

-Wonderful. A novel that manages to be both truly hilarious and deeply affecting. I loved it.---S.J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep

-Nicholls is a delightfully funny writer...and this over-planned vacation makes ripe material for comedy...Us evolves into a poignant consideration of how a marriage ages, how parents mess up and what survives despite all those challenges.---Washington Post

-But for all of their burdens and battles, Douglas and Connie have moments of real joy in their marriage and while it doesn't always seem like a pleasure, reading about it sure is.---Time magazine

-What happens when domestic bliss becomes rote? Is the past strong enough to bind us together when it happens? Nicholls' answer is complicated, poignant, wise--and disarmingly human.---Miami Herald

-It's a great combination of laughs and heart...Just what you need on these too-short days, no?---Sophie Kinsella, Redbook

-From the author of One Day--which was infinitely better than the movie--comes a pathos-laden love story about marriage on the brink of collapse.---Entertainment Weekly, -A Dozen Books We're Dying to Read This Fall.-

-Nicholls is a master of the braided narrative, weaving the past and present to create an intricate whole.... A funny and moving novel.---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

-For those who loved One Day, the author's latest is another heart-grabber about discovering what makes us happy and learning to let go.---Library Journal (starred review)

David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014.

'I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.'

'Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?'

Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again.

The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed. What could possibly go wrong?