LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
I first fell in love with David Nicholls' writing in his debut Starter for Ten. The honesty, the humour, the heart, all penned with such tenderness.
I adore his books. They are such a tonic. Such a joy to read. It is such a pleasure getting to know his characters page by page, chapter by chapter. Consuming them hungrily, whilst also mourning the fastly disappearing pages.
In this, his sixth novel, and I believe his best yet, we join a group of walkers on the journey of a lifetime. Mutual friend Cleo has the idea to plan a walking weekend with a group: four single people, a married couple and a teenager. Avid walker Michael is planning to walk the famous coast to coast, with the merry band joining him on the first leg of the trip.
Marnie is 38, a copy editor and proofreader, and hasn’t taken a photo of another person for 6 years. Year by year friends have been lost. Apathy, carelessness, moving on, with new lives, new partners, new children. And no-one to replace them. She now lives a life of self containment and independence. A solitary life. Alone.
Michael is 42, a Geography teacher who is separated from his wife, sincere in his passion for the subject, sincere in his love of walking. For the solitude.
Nicholls has this innate ability to capture relationships so well. Every high and low. Every peak and trough. With his observational humour shining through. It's so imperfectly real. So wonderfully wise. So brilliantly done. And every step of the way, you are smiling, you are urging them along.
Another absolute wonder from David Nicholls. Sigh, I wish I was there again. I’m bereft.
Deborah Maclaren
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You Are Here Synopsis
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way
Marnie is stuck.
Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by.
Michael is coming undone.
Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.
When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship.
But can they survive the journey?
A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781444715446 |
| Publication date: |
23rd April 2024 |
| Author: |
David Nicholls |
| Publisher: |
Sceptre an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
349 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Press Reviews
David Nicholls Press Reviews
'A triumph, a real gift of a novel'
SUNDAY TIMES
'A great comic novel . . . The reader becomes so invested in the outcome of this unspectacular, everyday, cagoule-clad romance that it makes the whole world shimmer with a kind of secret possibility'
OBSERVER
'Nicholls's knack for warm characters, funny dialogue and superb scene-setting is as spot-on as ever'
DAILY MAIL
'Refreshing . . . the romance has sincerity and authenticity'
GUARDIAN
'I read David Nicholls' new book You Are Here - you'll love it as much as One Day . . . Probably his best yet'
INDEPENDENT
'Few contemporary writers make characters feel as human as David Nicholls does'
BBC.com
'The irresistible feel of a classic romance'
MAIL ON SUNDAY
'I loved You Are Here even more than One Day'
RED MAGAZINE
'Romantic, funny and hopeful'
DOLLY ALDERTON, author of Good Material
'Tender, wise and joyful. I inhaled it'
JOJO MOYES, author of Me Before You
'Gorgeously witty and joyful, kind and sad: a book you do not want to be away from'
KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of Super-Infinite
'The genius who gave us One Day has written another classic and funny love story'
MATT HAIG, author of The Midnight Library
'I loved it'
BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry
'Magnificent'
MARIAN KEYES, author of My Favourite Mistake
Author
About David Nicholls
David Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. His TV credits include the third series of Cold Feet, Rescue Me, and I Saw You, as well as a much-praised modern version of Much Ado About Nothing and an adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, both for BBC TV. David has continued to write for film and TV as well as writing novels, and he has twice been nominated for BAFTA awards.
David's bestselling first novel, STARTER FOR TEN, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2004, and David has written the screenplays for film versions of both STARTER FOR TEN (released in 2006, starring James McAvoy) and THE UNDERSTUDY (not yet released). His third novel, ONE DAY, was published in hardback in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on publication.
Photograph © Joss Barratt/Stay Still Ltd
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