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.
Spotlight“The slow-burn here is genuinely agonizing in the best possible way. Silver understands that timing is its own kind of heartbreak.”
Ten Years of Almost, and Why It Was Worth It
Josie Silver understands that the most romantic thing in the world isn't the grand gesture — it's the look through a fogged bus window that you spend a decade trying to forget. 'One Day in December' is warm and aching and utterly committed to the slow burn, and I loved every frustrated, hopeful page of it. Save this one for a rainy weekend when you want to feel things.
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.”
Ten Years of Almost, and Why It Was Worth It
Josie Silver understands that the most romantic thing in the world isn't the grand gesture — it's the look through a fogged bus window that you spend a decade trying to forget. 'One Day in December' is warm and aching and utterly committed to the slow burn, and I loved every frustrated, hopeful page of it. Save this one for a rainy weekend when you want to feel things.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- January 1, 2018
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score
4.1
Ada’s editorial score — not an aggregate of reader reviews.
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.
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