One Day review: David Nicholls adaptation never quite manages to land a true emotional sucker punch
by Nick Hilton
Feb 08, 2024
3 minutes
Born in around 800, somewhere in Anglo-Saxon Hampshire, Bishop Swithun was an unlikely folk hero. Most famous for a legend where he mends a basket of broken eggs – somehow less dramatic than, say, slaying a dragon or driving the snakes out of Ireland – Swithun was, all the same, given his own sainthood and name day. And St Swithin’s Day, the 15th of July, is the day that anchors, like a gravitational force, the orbiting drama of , a new romantic series, charting the between two unlikely lovers.
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