Is One Day in December Worth Reading?
by Josie Silver
Ada’s Score
Josie Silver's debut novel begins with Laurie spotting a stranger through a bus window and feeling an instant, bone-deep certainty — only to lose him before she can speak to him. When he finally reappears, he's the new boyfriend of her best friend, and everything becomes exquisitely, painfully complicated. Told across a decade of near-misses, heartbreaks, and slow realizations, it is a love story about patience and the gap between the right person and the right moment. Deeply romantic and emotionally honest, it became a word-of-mouth phenomenon for good reason.
“The slow-burn here is genuinely agonizing in the best possible way. Silver understands that timing is its own kind of heartbreak.”
Ada Brief
AI reading intelligence“The slow-burn here is genuinely agonizing in the best possible way. Silver understands that timing is its own kind of heartbreak.”
Book Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- January 1, 2018
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score Breakdown
4.1
This breakdown reflects how Ada weighs the book’s strengths and flaws, not aggregated reader data.
Common Questions About One Day in December
- Is One Day in December worth reading?
- The slow-burn here is genuinely agonizing in the best possible way. Silver understands that timing is its own kind of heartbreak. Ada rates it 4.1 out of 5.
- How many pages is One Day in December?
- One Day in December is 416 pages long — around 7–8 hours at an average reading pace.
