David Nicholls

Hoping, Trying, To Save a Marriage

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 28, 2015

David Nichols, the New York Times bestselling author, discusses his new novel Us. Almost three decades after the relationship of Douglas Petersen and his wife Connie first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells Douglas that she thinks she wants a divorce.

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