Did I mention it happened on 21st December – the shortest day of the year when at 4 pm it’s already dark? Besides the fact that I was incredulous that a young man would read a hardcover book, in winter, when it’s dark outside, while waiting for the bus, I would just like to know how it is possible for two people on different levels, in pretty close proximity, distance-wise, to achieve the staring contest. I would just like to know how is it possible to ” stare straight at each other' when one is sitting on the top deck of a double-decker bus in London and the other person is sitting in a bus shelter, with a roof I assume, head down reading. Not about the insta-love, although, really? Not even about the irritating first-person narration, which somehow I find irksome mostly in romance novels. I am on page 7 and I'm already grumbling. He lifts his head and sees the girl staring at him. She looks out the window and notices a guy sitting in a bus shelter absorbed in a hardcover book. Have I read the same book as everyone else? One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.Īlternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525574682. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered.

Instead they 'reunite' at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway.

and then her bus drives away.Ĭertain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies.

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