![]() ![]() Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same dayJuly 15thof each year. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. And maybe going ahead is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. ![]() Now, almost three decades later, they live more or less happily in the London suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that seduces beautiful Connie into a second date.and eventually into marriage. ![]()
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