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One Day in December

By: Josie Silver
Narrated by: Eleanor Tomlinson, Charlie Anson
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Summary

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of One Day in December by Josie Silver, read by Eleanor Tomlinson and Charlie Anson.

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it?


But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.

Laurie thinks she'll never see the boy from the bus again. But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus.

Determined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. But what if fate has other plans?

Following Laurie, Sarah and Jack through ten years of love, heartbreak and friendship, One Day in December is a joyous, heart-warming and immensely moving love story that you'll want to escape into forever.

©2018 Josie Silver (P)2018 Penguin Audio
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: Romance

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Gorgeous...readers are going to love it! (Marian Keyes)

Sucked me in and didn't let go. It made me laugh, cry, ache and shout at the characters. Utterly captivating...one of my favourite books (Holly Martin)
A feel-good, heart-wrenching tribute to the female friends we cannot do without, as well as the men that we fall for. Josie Silver is one to watch (Stephanie Butland)

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Definitely not for your average Hell’s Angel reader

Extremely girly girly, enough to make you wince. Well written story though & ( being a girl) I did shed a tear. Very well narrated indeed. The story did keep me reading to the end. Very Hugh Grant-ish type scenario so theme not original. But the writing style was insightful with some lovely metaphors.

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made me laugh and cry lovely story.

I don't usually read love stories but this was amazing kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. sad now that I've finished reading it.

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Life can't go on now I've finished the book

I feel lost, like I'm grieving the characters. I fell in love with them and I have never been so devastated for a book to end.

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Wow

I loved this book and could hardly wait for my next chance to listen to more. I'm kind of disappointed that it has come to an end. Will look out for more books like this from Josie Silver

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predictable

enjoyable , well read predictable ending but overall nice light hearted and heart warming story

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It took me by surprise!

One Day In December took me by surprise, I honestly didn't see myself liking it and I remember being annoyed with it's slow pace at the beginning.

The English slang took me a while to understand; thank God for Google and now I have new words to call my friends.

Laurie reminds me of me, not in her love story way but personality wise and I think that's why I resonated with her. Her beautiful friendship with Sarah was definitely one of the highlights as well as the honesty this book illustrate about relationships and life in general.

I found myself unable to put the book down, even getting four hours sleep before a big meeting.

Josie broke my heart and mended it back several times over as I fell in love with both Oscar and Jack. They are both so loveable; Oscar - Safe and Stable (70%) and Jack - Adventurous and Rough around the edges (100%).
Josie's ability to elegantly puts the character feelings into words makes this book one of the best books I've read this year and the ending ties the whole book perfectly.

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Slow story.Boring.

Boring. narrator very flat & dull.
Didn't finish as too slow.
Even supposed exciting bits were dull!
Not recommended.

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not too bad but....

This book had some good believable parts and I think it got marginally better towards the end which kept me listening. However I found the two main female characters rather annoying and somewhat dull. as time went on no one seemed to grow up really and there seemed to be little development of characters apart from angst ridden unrequited love. It was fairly predictable as a storyline. I dont think i can recommend it for others though unless you want to listen to a book that does not challenge you. This is good listening in the car after a hard day of work when not too much concentration is required. I do fid the story somewhat forgettable as a love story. there are better listens out there....

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Really poor story made worse by terrible winey sounding narrator

It could have been bearable to listen to if the narrator didn’t sound so winey. Total waste of time.

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Unexpectedly loved it

My first concern (being a BBC Poldark fan) was that I’d find it hard to listen to Eleanor Tomlinson narrate Laurie’s part and not think of Demelza all the time. I needn’t have worried as her voice didn’t have any Cornish dialect and was perfect for the lovely Laurie. Both narrators read beautifully.
The plot was predictable but that didn’t detract from the story and I looked forward to long dog walks, piles of ironing or drives to immerse myself. I smiled and, at the conclusion, cried!

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