One Day Alasdair Gray and a model for many

and a model for many subsequent literary heroines

a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship

the boorish police officer Verrall

My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides

Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive

One Day Alasdair Gray and a model for manyIts 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same dayJuly 15thof each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life