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2009 novel by david nicholls5/28/2023 One of the most potent aspects of the story is Douglas’s troubled relationship with Albie, and their struggle to find a natural, relaxed way of simply talking to one another. “The great joy of being a novelist is that when bad things happen in life, you get a chapter out of it.” The best-selling author jokes that he was “as unbrave and complaining” in real life as Douglas Petersen, the middle-aged protagonist of Us, who is portrayed in the television version by Tom Hollander. “The jellyfish scene is brilliantly done,” says Nicholls, speaking on the telephone from his Highbury home. The incident is one of the few truly autobiographical moments in his novel Us, which has been adapted into a four-part BBC One series. In the end, he took a deep breath, braved the sting attacks and swam to safety. I did think ‘Oh, I am going to have a heart attack and die,’” he recalled. “It was horrific, really, really horrible and alarming. When David Nicholls found himself suddenly surrounded by a school of jellyfish during a swim in an isolated French cove, he feared the worst.
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