I really love David Nicholls' writing; One Day is one of my all time favourite books, however I wasn't sure whether this would be as brilliant. Stephen McQueen is a distastrously unsuccessful actor who is stuck playing dead bodies and being an understudy to Hollywood superstar, Josh Harper. His life is a disaster, which only gets worse when he falls for Josh's gorgeous wife, Nora.
This was a really fun, light read and I really enjoyed it. Steve's life is comically hopeless, but he's so lovable that you keep rooting for him to succeed, even when everything is falling apart. If there's one thing that David Nicholls does really well, it's creating likeable characters. The scenes between Nora and Steve are my favourites, as the dialogue is witty and Steve is really at his happiest. My only criticism would be that Steve's constant failings got pretty depressing after a while. I've always wanted to go into acting, so to hear all these ways which things can go wrong is so disheartening.
Despite that, I really enjoyed it!
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