One Day

Dexter and Emma spend the night together after their graduation from the University of Edinburgh, on 15 July 1988. They talk about how they will be once they are 40, but the next day, they must go their separate ways.

Over the next 20 years, the novel provides a snapshot on 15 July each year, showing how their lives unfold, very differently to their expectations, including their on-again off-again relationship.