That changes when Sarah invites her new boyfriend, Jack, to a party. The two of them try to find the bus boy, but they are unsuccessful. They decide to call him 'bus boy.' Laurie and Sarah have a friendship so close that they actually view each other as sisters. When Sarah returns after the holidays, Laurie tells her about the man. He makes a move to get on the bus, but it is too late. Even though she feels a connection between the two of them, she does nothing to try to make contact with him. Instantly, she falls in love with a man she sees at the bus stop. She is thinking of this and all of the germs she is catching on the bus when it stops.

Laurie is looking forward to spending Christmas at her parents' home. Sarah, Laurie's roommate and best friend, has already left for the holidays. Even worse, she does not look forward to going home to an empty apartment. Laurie is riding a bus on her way home from working at a hotel that she hates. Paperback VersionĪs the narrative begins, it is Christmas time. She lives in a small town in the UK with her husband and sons.The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Silver, Josie. Josie Silver is the author of two books, One Day in December, One Night on the Island, and The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. There’s something about living in a different place that allows you to be whoever you want to be. It’s strange, but you never stop caring about someone, even if you don’t want to be with them any more.

There comes a point where you have to make the choice to be happy, because being sad for too long is exhausting. You tread lightly through life, but you leave deep footprints that are hard for other people to fill. Sometimes you just meet the right person at the wrong time. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.Ĭertain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 27 minutes

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