One Day won the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award. It has since gone on to sell over five million copies and has been translated into forty languages.

David wrote the screenplay for Lone Scherfig's film adaptation starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, which was released in 2010. David Nicholls third novel, One Day, was published in hardback in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on publication. His novels include Starter for Ten (2003), The Understudy (2005), One Day (2009), and Us (2014). David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Sweet Sorrow, Us, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. One Day won the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award. David Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter. It tells the story of two friends, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, and how. It has since gone on to sell over 2 million copies and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. W ith the neat timing of one his books, David Nicholls’s new novel Sweet Sorrow is published exactly 10 years after One Day, the blockbuster romantic comedy that made his name and the rest. A decade on from its 2009 release, One Day has sold four million copies globally.

David Nicholls' third novel, One Day, was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on publication. David has continued to write for film and TV as well as writing novels, and he has twice been nominated for BAFTA awards.David's bestselling first novel, Starter for Ten, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2004, and David has written the screenplays for film versions of both Starter for Ten (released in 2006, starring James McAvoy) and The Understudy (not yet released). His third novel, One Day, was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on.

His TV credits include the third series of Cold Feet, Rescue Me, and I Saw You, as well as a much-praised modern version of Much Ado About Nothing and an adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, both for BBC TV. David Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing.

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