![]() ![]() Nicholls creates a tragic comedy that totally captures his audience. Told in 179 snippets, Nicholls manages to take us through the marriage and relationship highs and lows of Douglas and Connie’s lives. And now that Albie is graduating from high school, Douglas imagines a huge void where his life has been. Douglas seems to have been living in his own world as he had no idea Connie was so miserable in their marriage. ![]() ![]() And this novel begins in England at the home of Douglas and Connie Petersen, and their son, Albie, or as they affectionately call him. He thinks she’s telling him there is a burglar in the house, but, no, she is telling him she is leaving him! This scene shows the comic/tragic setting this story will take from the get-go.ĭavid Nicholls is an English novelist. Douglas’s wife of twenty years wakes him in the night. The first page of US jump-starts this witty novel of marriage and parenthood. That is actually the title he gives Book One of the novel. US, by David Nicholls, could also be called THE GRAND TOUR. ![]()
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