Our latest Netflix obsession is the heartwarming, emotional and moving adaptation of David Nicholl’s One Day. The series focuses on best friends Dexter (Leo Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod) who meet on their last night of university and go onto have a constantly evolving relationships over the next two decades. The series is based on Nicholls book of the same name, which was released in 2009 and has since become a cult classic. If you haven’t read the book yet we strongly recommend you close this page, and immediately head to your local book shop to pick up a copy. If you have read the book and are looking for similarly moving (read heartbreaking) novels, then these are our top nine picks for reads most similar to One Day.
Of course a David Nicholls novel needs to end up on this list. And if you liked One Day, why not give Sweet Sorrow a try? Set in the summer of 1997, it tells the story of Charlie, whose life is currently in shambles – he has no clue about his future, his family is breaking up and his dad is falling apart. But then, he meets Fran, and everything changes.
If you like the leaving things down to fate aspect of One Day, then you need to read This Time Next Year. It’s about Quinn and Minnie who are born on New Year’s Eve in the same hospital, just one minute apart. Their worlds are completely different, but 30 years later they find themselves in the same place, at the same time. Is the universe trying to tell them something?
Former flames reuniting your thing? Seven Days In June will be right up your street then. It tells the story of Eva, a best selling erotica writer, who reunites with award-wining novelist Shane, 15 years on from a romantic week they had. This time around they spend a week together reconnecting, but Eva soon finds herself wanting Shane to leave New York City, but not before he answers some questions for her.
You may have actually heard of Where Rainbows End by its film name Love, Rosie, starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin. The Cecelia Ahern novel tells the story of best friends Rosie and Alex whose lives are changed when Alex suddenly moves to America with his family. Can their relationship survive a whole ocean b
