Sarfraz Manzoor

I just wanted to recommend this book which I just finished. it’s a really funny, moving and sad book about two people who meet on the last day of uni in 1988 and it follows their lives for the next twenty years catching up with them on that same day in each successive year. The book is basically about the way our lives diverge from what we imagined when we were young and it captures that journey from youth to early middle age brilliantly. i am roughly the same age as the characters in the book and there was lots of telling details and pointed but humourous observations that rang true. but what really did it for me was the way the book ends which i won’t reveal except to say that I finished the book a few days ago now and i am still thinking about the two characters of Emma and Dexter, and Emma in particular felt so well drawn that having finished the book I kinda miss her. The book is, in a quiet and unshowy way, really profound and it made me think hard about my own life and offered yet another reminder of that perennial lesson that life ought to be lived as if every day could be the last, because one day it will be.