Us became my very early morning read when a trip to the loo erased all efforts to go back to sleep. He’s a gem and he talks to you as if you’ve known him since kindergarten. It’s divided into many small chapters, 180 in all, which in itself, propels the reading along ‘I’ll just read the next chapter before I walk the dog’ ‘I’ll read this short one before I start dinner’ ‘Just one more, it’s short, before my afternoon jog.’ And why do you want to do this? Because you love Douglas.
However there is another narrative interspersed with the Grand Tour: how Douglas and Connie got together in the first place and many more incidents of their life together. They embark on a (possible) remedy: a Grand Tour of Europe, and drag a reluctant Albie along with them. She wakes him up one morning and tells him that she might want to leave him. She’s an artist and an ex-hippie and is definitely cool. That’s certainly what his son, Albie, would say although he probably wouldn’t be so kind. The third component of Us (2014) is Douglas’s wife Connie. It’s a first person narrative of Douglas Petersen, a bio-chemist, and a man who always just seems to miss out on being, cool, mainly because he just doesn’t know what cool is he doesn’t get most things. It’s rare to find a laugh-out-loud read these days, but this is one of them. British novelist and screenwriter, David Nicholls.
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