Us

Us: a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children | Longlisted for the Booker Prize<BR>'Perfect'<BR> INDEPENDENT<BR><BR> 'I honestly can't imagine loving a novel much more'<BR> SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR> 'I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After'<BR> JOJO MOYES<BR><BR> Douglas and Connie - scientist and artist, husband and wife - live a quiet and quietly unremarkable life in the suburbs of London. Until, suddenly, after more than twenty years of marriage, Connie decides she wants a divorce.<BR><BR> Heartbroken but determined, Douglas comes up with the perfect plan: he is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, by organising the holiday of a lifetime.<BR><BR> The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.<BR><BR> What could possibly go wrong?<BR><BR><BR>ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS<BR>'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now'<BR>FINANCIAL TIMES<BR><BR>'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters'<BR>DAILY TELEGRAPH<BR><BR>'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love'<BR>THE TIMES<BR><BR>'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does'<BR>EVENING STANDARD<BR><BR>'Genuinely brilliant'<BR>NEW STATESMAN