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David Nicholls’ comic history of a family in jeopardy, recounted over the course of what may well be their final weeks together.
Douglas Petersen’s 21-year-old marriage to Connie is almost over. When autumn comes around, their son Albie will leave for university. Connie has decided to leave soon after. But there's still the summer holiday to get through - a Grand Tour of Europe's major cities. Over the course of this epic journey, Douglas devises a cunning plan to win back the love of his wife and repair his troubled relationship with his son.
"As in all Nicholls' work, for page or screen, his organisation of the story is impeccable... The narrative neatly weaves present and past with a perfect rhythmic sense of when to leave or to revisit a particular strand. The dialogue is always bouncy...and there are some nice, Brysonish summaries of the towns and hotels the Petersens visit on their break." - The Guardian (UK)
"Nicholls is a delightfully funny writer…and this over-planned vacation makes ripe material for comedy…Us evolves into a poignant consideration of how a marriage ages, how parents mess up and what survives despite all those challenges." - The Washington Post
David Nicholls’s first career was as an actor, under the stage name David Holdaway, before becoming a novelist and television and film scriptwriter, adapting his own works and classic novels. He found considerable success with his film versions of his own novels Starter for Ten and One Day and, among many others, his adaptation of the 2006 Booker Prize-nominated Edward St Aubyn’s Melrose novels. Nevertheless, Nicholls claims that ‘The best thing about writing for a living is the distractions, and I welcome them whole-heartedly.’
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