What inspired the lead characters in Netflixs new romantic series?
Perhaps writing in the romantic genre encouraged interviewers to grant Nicholls honorary-woman status?
What does author David Nicholls have to say on the matter?
I loved writing her.
I found that attitude to life the combination of moral seriousness and a kind of wryness so beguiling.
Certainly I didnt spend it at nightclubs and wild parties, like Dexter.
What I didnt do was write not until 1997.
After that things got a little better.
Unfortunately I lack Emmas integrity and wit, and theres no single, real-life Em.
Shes an amalgam of me, of my female friends, of characters from fiction and film.
I think there are probably bits of them in Dexter.
Dominik Diamond presented a videogaming show like Dexter, and then became a newspaper columnist forThe Daily Star.
One Day is streaming now onNetflix.
