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Harper
November 2014
On Sale: November 11, 2014
Featuring: Douglas Petersen; Connie
416 pages
ISBN: 0062365584
EAN: 9780062365583
Kindle: B00JJV4QZG
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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 togetherβand what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas 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 . . . and eventually into marriage. 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. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldnβt be worse. Hoping to encourage her sonβs artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the worldβs greatest works of art as a family, and she canβt bring herself to cancel. 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. Narrated from Douglasβs 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 whoβs always felt like a stranger. 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. And in David Nichollsβs gifted hands, Douglasβs odyssey brings Europeβfrom the streets of Amsterdam to the famed museums of Paris, from the cafΓ©s of Venice to the beaches of Barcelonaβto vivid life just as he experiences a powerful awakening of his own. Will this summer be his last as a husband, or the moment when he turns his marriage, and maybe even his whole life, around?
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