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English author and screenwriter David Nicholls’s contemporary novel Us (2014) tells the story of fifty-four-year-old Douglas Petersen who attempts to both save his marriage and heal his relationship with his moody son while on a family trip to Europe.
Book Summary. A compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart.
30 set 2014 · In David Nicholls’s new novel, “Us” — longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize — a father discovers just how much those intentions are worth to his hectored teenage son. This is the sort of witty book that guys should read the moment their partners say, “I’m pregnant!”
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Us is a 2014 novel by English author David Nicholls for whom it won the Specsavers "UK Author of the Year" award. It was also long-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. The BBC screened a four-part TV adaptation of the novel, by Nicholls, in 2020, starring Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves and Tom Taylor.
2 gen 2015 · David Nicholls’s “Us,” which had yet to be published when it was selected for the longlist of the Man Booker prize last summer, was widely regarded as the judges’ nod to popular taste, a ...
Summary. David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his New York Time bestseller one day to a compellingly human, deftly humorous new novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens when everything threatens to fall apart.
27 set 2014 · Us is narrated by Douglas Petersen, a nerdy biochemist of 54, who revisits the events of the previous summer when he and his wife Connie embarked on a Grand Tour of the art capitals of...
