Fill in the Gaps

Some time ago, I think it must have been last year, I read a very interesting book called Every Other Day or something like that. I can't remember who it was written by. It wasn't Julian Barnes or Martin Amis, but somebody of that ilk. I do know that the book was adapted for either the cinema or TV and starred a well-known actor whose name escapes me but who has featured in several well-known costume dramas derived from the works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit? Big Jim?
Anyway, the book traces the life of a man born in the early years of the 20th century. His name wasn't Marcus or Theodore but it was something like that. Along the way he married somebody called Stella, or was that the name of their daughter? A great book forever etched in my mind.