Connie and Douglas have been together, and happily so, for almost two decades. Mind you, this is no fickle woman and this is not an admission she makes lightly. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īn Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2014: At an ungodly hour one summer morning, a time when most of us cannot digest a simple greeting let alone any grand revelation, Douglas Petersen’s wife, Connie, informs him that she doesn’t want to be married anymore. Will this summer be his last as a husband, or the moment when he turns his marriage, and maybe even his whole life, around? And in David Nicholls’s gifted hands, Douglas’s odyssey brings Europe-from the streets of Amsterdam to the famed museums of Paris, from the cafés of Venice to the beaches of Barcelona-to vivid life just as he experiences a powerful awakening of his own.
Us is a moving meditation on the demands of marriage and parenthood, the regrets of abandoning youth for middle age, and the intricate relationship between the heart and the head. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together-and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart.ĭouglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date.
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