One Fine Day
This book is one of the most brilliant romance books I have ever read. It is brilliantly funny, intellectual and down to earth. It does not over romantacise relationships but actually connotes them as they are. The author uses a mix of comedy, cynicism and realism to encapsulate the modern day relationship.
This book however does not just explore romance but also looks at society in a variety of ways. The book explores social boundaries and the great British class system in a comic and slightly cynical way. The book follows the lives of two people for 20 years one born in to a life of luxury and vanity and the other born in to a working class studios life style. Stereotypically the character who was born in to the middle class family constantly throws caution to the wind and spends his life ’traveling', whereas the character born in to the working class spends her time punishing herself and making life harder.
Although the book falls in to some of the stereotype traps it is still refreshingly funny, interesting and real. The book is brilliantly British and has such a strong sense of British humour running through. it is very rare that I read a book at feel a strong national sense, although there are strong regional themes that run through the book, there is a definite sense of nationalism.
The book explores our self storage of emotions and how us less emotive, less romantic Brits would rather stay unhappy and not take a chance, then be happy but look like a fool.
You can’t finish this book and not have a smile on your face, although there is a brilliant twist at the end.
Well happy reading.
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