One Day - David Nicholls

I felt compelled to read this one to find out what all the fuss was about. I was pleasantly surprised - underlying the romcom-style will-they-won't-they plot was a genuinely moving love story, and it was refreshing to have someone so self-destructive (and even at times unlikable) as one of the central characters. The structure of describing one day in each year worked well for me, allowing for some effective and often amusing period detail, and managing to conceal a thought-provoking twist despite the nature of the ending having been widely signalled as part of the hype surrounding the film of the book.