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David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.

David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel Us.

Almost three decades after their improbable relationship first blossomed in London biochemist Douglas and his attractive artist wife Connie live seemingly happily enough with their moody 17-year-old son, Albie just outside London. Then Connie drops a bombshell: she thinks she wants a divorce.

Devastated but determined to fight to save their marriage, Douglas insists that the family stick to a previously planned Grand Tour of Europe where he secretly hopes to win his wife and son back.

Narrated from Douglas鈥檚 endearingly honest point of view, Us is the bittersweet but often very funny story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves and learn how to get closer to a son who鈥檚 always felt like a stranger.

(Photo: David Nicholls. Credit: Sophia Spring)

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50 minutes

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Thu 7 Nov 2019 00:06GMT

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