The runway success of David Nicholls's novel One Day has been a bright spot on a gloomy publishing landscape since its publication in 2009.
Nicholls explains why he decided to write a novel in "20 set-pieces", what his experience as a screenwriter has brought to his fiction, and why his central character, Dexter, started out as a lifestyle journalist but ended up as a television presenter.
It's a very contemporary novel, so why all the covert references to 19th-century novels, asks book club chair John Mullan. And is there a secret hidden in the choice of day?
