Tim Auld in The Telegraph, praises the novel, concluding " Us is a quiet joy, written with an undemonstrative simplicity that is hard to achieve.The narrative then alternates between the story of the disastrous trip, at the start of which Albie deserts his parents in Amsterdam, and that of Douglas's unlikely courtship and marriage to Connie, contrasting his disciplined scientific life as a biochemist with Connie's spontaneous artistic character. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again". Douglas resolves that their last family holiday together, a ' grand tour' of the cultural and artistic gems of Europe, will "be the trip of a lifetime, one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. The book begins when Connie, frustrated artist and Douglas Petersen's wife of nearly 25 years, tells him that now their son Albie is about to leave home for college, she wants to leave too. In Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcast it as a six-episode mini-series. The BBC screened a four-part TV adaptation of the novel, by Nicholls, in 2020, starring Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves and Tom Taylor.
It was also long-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Us is a 2014 novel by English author David Nicholls for whom it won the Specsavers "UK Author of the Year" award.
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