With **An Education **still sucking up plaudits like a child in a spaghetti commercial, its director Lone Scherfig is in negotiations over her next project, which will see her tackle another novel adaptation.
One Day, the most recent novel by David Nicholls - who also penned the similarly silver screen-friendly Starter For 10 - is a high-comcept rom-com-friendly novel about two friends who have a brief fling at their university graduation in 1988, and then meet up one day a year for the next 20 years.
So far so When Harry Met Sally At Four Weddings, but it’s another classy literary step for Scherfig as, despite its commercial credentials, **One Day **was described by The Times as “the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!” Unfortunately, nobody at Empire Towers has read What a Carve Up! (there were no lightsabers in it, so we passed), but we’ll take their word on that.
More word on **One Day **and Scherfig’s involvement as it comes.