During this time she is able to find a job as a teacher, after various years of struggle, despite having a “double-first degree”. They are drawn closer through a holiday together and the death of Dexter’s mother.Įmma breaks up with her boyfriend, Ian, after realising she is creating a life with someone she doesn’t love. While there are various attempts from both sides to start a relationship, coincidences stop Emma and Dexter from getting together, and while they have relationships with other people, they remain best friends, each secretly longing for the other. Eventually both move to London, where Emma becomes a waitress in Kentish Town, at a Tex-Mex restaurant, while Dexter becomes a successful television presenter. The novel visits their lives and their relationship on 15 July in successive years in each chapter, for 20 years.Įmma wants to improve the world, and begins writing and performing plays, which remain unsuccessful, while Dexter travels through the world, drinking and hooking up with women. While they do not become romantically involved completely, this is the beginning of their friendship. They talk about how they will be once they are 40. Dexter and Emma spend the night together following their graduation from the University of Edinburgh, in 1988.
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