One Day

Anti-Thatcherite Northerner Emma and confident Dexter spend the night together following their graduation from Edinburgh University in1988. Though they don't become romantically involved, they become friends and in subsequent years, their lives take them in different directions, but they keep in touch. The novel visits their lives on 15 July in successive years in each chapter. Each have relationships with others, such as Emma with an unfunny stand-up comedian boyfriend Ian, and Dexter's with a fellow TV presenter.