I hear that "One Day" has been adapted for TV on Netflix, so I thought I'd share what I mentioned years ago when the novel was popular. I don't know if TIALTNGO features in the Netflix series. Anyone?
The novel "One Day" (from 2009) by David Nicholls (born 1966) which seems to be being read by every third person on the trains into London these days, mentions The Smiths' "There is a Light...." The female character "Em" (aspiring novelist, English teacher, dramatist) compiles a CD of her favourite tracks from the eighties as a present for her newly married friend/love interest/ foppish "Dexter" (non-academic, 'posh', drunken, coke-taking youth TV presenter). We're supposed to believe that in a drunken state he puts this CD on while trying to calm his baby (by another woman, his wife) and sings along to TIALTNGO even though we understand that Dexter never liked The Smiths or that song. SO WHY PLAY IT AND SING ALONG TO IT THEN?? Unreal.
Anyway, I won't spoil the book for you if you want to read it - though I can't recommend it - but it does appear to me that the tune TIALTNGO is more significant to the plot than anyone in my book group realised.
The novel "One Day" (from 2009) by David Nicholls (born 1966) which seems to be being read by every third person on the trains into London these days, mentions The Smiths' "There is a Light...." The female character "Em" (aspiring novelist, English teacher, dramatist) compiles a CD of her favourite tracks from the eighties as a present for her newly married friend/love interest/ foppish "Dexter" (non-academic, 'posh', drunken, coke-taking youth TV presenter). We're supposed to believe that in a drunken state he puts this CD on while trying to calm his baby (by another woman, his wife) and sings along to TIALTNGO even though we understand that Dexter never liked The Smiths or that song. SO WHY PLAY IT AND SING ALONG TO IT THEN?? Unreal.
Anyway, I won't spoil the book for you if you want to read it - though I can't recommend it - but it does appear to me that the tune TIALTNGO is more significant to the plot than anyone in my book group realised.
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