Love, love loved this slow burn story. Read this while travelling and cried three times. The unrequited love, bad luck and timing issues make you just want to kidnap the main characters and send them off to an island together. This has got to be a movie, the ending is just perfect.

A lovely feel good story. This is a book to be read in one sitting . Highly recommended .

A nice romantic book. Escapism at its best. Just the thing to keep you reading. A new author to me, and one I'll keep an eye open for in the future

Without doubt one of the best books I’ve ever read. Romantic, sad, happy and all other emotions rolled into one, the author has you page turning at such a rapid rate it’s impossible to stop. The story line is effortless and exciting and I hope there be a sequel written. JOSIE Silver is my new favourite author ! I thoroughly recommend you read One Day in December.

This is a really good love story, which develops over time. Laurie sees a boy at a bus stop one December morning, and is entranced by him. However, he cannot decide what to do and the bus moves on. |The next time she sees him, her best friend Sarah is introduces him as her boyfriend, with whom she is in deep.
Laurie feels she cannot intefere, so she says nothing, and takes a trip to Thailand.. There she meets Oscar, with whom she falls in love, with his easy going attitude. However when they come back to England, things get a little more complicated. They marry, and then he gets a promotion, but with 3 or 4 days working in Belgium.
Laurie is heartbroken when her Dad dies suddenly, and Oscar doesn't seem that symnpathetic. His mother is a nightmare t oo, and Laurie is torn as to what to do.
The characters in this novel are all thoroughly believable, and the plot drips with humour and pathos in equal proportions.
Thoroughly enjoyable read, thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book.

A rollercoaster of a ride through the eyes of the three main characters all of whom are well portrayed and believable.

Jack and Laurie ‘meet’ through the glass window of a bus and make an immediate connection but the bus moves on without them actually meeting. What happens over the next ten years or so makes a thoroughly enjoyable and not totally predictable read.

A lovely light romantic book

What a great read!!! A definite Summer must-read!
Finished in just a few days- a great story-line. The characters were believable, relatable and engaging.

Laurie and Sarah are best friends and flatmates. They are like sisters, so, one cold, snowy December day when Laurie falls in love at first sight, Sarah is right behind her in her search for Mr Wonderful. Laurie had glimpsed ‘The One’ out of her bus window on her way home. Their eyes had met and it happened. It felt as though her heart had been pierced. She was sure ‘The One’ had felt it too; that intensity, the jolt of everlasting love, but as the bus moved on, he was lost to her. Sarah helped her search, search, search but it was beginning to look as though he would never be found.
Then the very next December they throw a Christmas party. Sarah has found her ‘Mr Right’ and tonight he was to be the most important guest at their bash; the night he meets Sarah’s best friend. Both girls are beyond excited. Sarah can’t wait to show Jack off and Laurie can’t wait to see Sarah’s hot new boyfriend. But when Sarah enthusiastically introduces the two most important people in her life, Laurie is in for a shock. It’s HER Mr Wonderful. Bus boy. She recovers quickly, her heart in her boots. She cannot spoil Sarah’s surprise but she is way, way upset as she cheerfully welcomes him with her heart broken in two. There it is - a flicker of recognition. Jack remembers her! But it is too late for Jack and Laurie. He belongs to Sarah now and so Laurie decides to put all thoughts of loving Jack behind her and gets on with her life. And what a rollercoaster of a ride the next ten years prove to be.
That is perhaps the most significant part of the novel, but it never feels like the main romance is ‘put on hold’ as we follow Sarah, Jack and Laurie through their friendship, careers and romances. There are so many interesting and exciting threads which merge into the main story and end so beautifully. There are sizzling love scenes, heart warming romances, endearing relationships, lust, oodles of fun and then in contrast total heartbreak and despair: the whole tapestry of life and all its intricacies, marriages, births and deaths and everything in between. There are shocks, thrills and spills, all so superbly written and lots of wonderful characters interwoven into the story, beautifully created and skilfully developed; all with their part to play. I really loved it all, every last word.
I received a complimentary copy of this novel from publisher Penguin through my membership of NetGalley. Thank you for my copy sent in return for an honest and unbiased review. This novel is an excellent read and will keep you turning the pages, wondering what will happen next, excited and soon to reach a very lovely conclusion. It’s a very well deserved 9.5/10 review from me.

Beautiful story telling, beautiful characters with a beautiful story.
One of my favourites this year, I'm excited to share my joy with friends when it comes out later this year.
I was torn with who I was backing.. this is definitely one to read.

Laurie glances out of the bus window and spots Jack - their eyes meet, it sadly they don’t meet in person until Laurie’s best friend/flat mate introduces her new boyfriend...... Five out of five, ten out of ten. Now I’m not one to shed tears over fiction but I nearly did with this book! Absolutely perfect for people who like star crossed lovers. This grabbed me from the very start, didn’t want it to end and for once actually liked all the main characters. Loved the descriptions of the various places, the style of writing - actually there was nothing at all to dislike whatsoever! First time I’ve read anything by this author and definitely not the last.

What if she had got off the bus, or he had got on? How would you deal with your best friend going out with the boy you fell in love with at first sight, but never found again - until she introduced him as her new boyfriend? A lovely book, with several twists in it, making it a really good story. Humour, love and sorrow as in life.

There’s nothing more magical than a fiery Christmas romance, unless of course the love of your life isn’t romancing you but your best friend.
This is a story that pays homage to the unwritten rule of friendship; that you don’t fraternise with your best friends love. Friends come first and foremost. But what is it like to live the lie? How can you face your friend everyday knowing your secretly in love with their lover? Well Laurie is about to find out….

This is a very sweet but not too demonstrative story of friendship, love and where the boundaries lay. It is an inoffensive, easy, feel-good read that is perfect for the holiday season.

Urgh - I can't put into words how much I loved this novel! The ending was beautiful and just a great way to finish this lovely story. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't relate to this novel as much, seeing as it's seen as a more winter read and we're currently in summer but to me that didn't bother me at all. I loved it even more for this reason! It was refreshing to read a different type of novel when all that is out at the moment is summer, holiday reads!

This novel is beautifully written and was so heartwarming and quite emotional in parts! Stunning.

I enjoyed this book, and particularly loved the ending. I did struggle a little with the fact that I didn’t particularly like Jack initially, but he grew on me! An excellent insight into the different shapes friendship and loyalty can take, and how difficult relationships of all types can be.

I've seen a lot of comments about how this book would make a great winter read, well for me it was an all year round read!! I love a good romance story and whilst the ending was predictable, I don't think that's a bad thing! I loved reading the story year by year and the characters come to life on the pages you're reading. Josie Silver does a fantastic job and I would highly recommend this book!

Loved this book, light and romantic, which made me cry at the end. A lovely story. Highly recommended.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Josie Silver for the copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

I loved this book. It was full of romance, heartache and what ifs. It starts in 2008 just before Christmas. Laurie is on a bus in London and headed home for Christmas when she sees a guy waiting at a bus shelter – their eyes meet – and the bus moves on, leaving Laurie hopelessly in love with a stranger.
Laurie and her best friend Sarah spend almost a year searching for the stranger Laurie nicknamed Bus Boy.
This is a romance about friendship, relationships and families. You will love this romance. It will make you wonder what if? Over and over. It reminded me of two of my favourite romance movies, Sleepless in Seattle and Serendipity.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. What a great read, I have not read anything by this author before and shall quickly remedy that. It is a real uplifting read.

I really enjoyed this book, would be a good book for someone’s Christmas stocking (great reading over the Christmas holidays).
It does touch 9n the impact social media/ mobile phones can have on our relationships. I loved some of the descriptive parts, it bought the story even more to life. A great read

This is an enjoyable story of people deceiving themselves and each other, leading to some wrong decisions which impact on a number of lives. The action takes place in a number of different places and geography has it's own impact on the tale. Good holiday reading.