You Are Here

THE INSTANTLY ICONIC LOVE STORY 'A triumph, a real gift of a novel' Sunday Times 'Pure pleasure' Guardian 'It makes you want to tell someone - anyone - that you love or care about them' Independent 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? 'Romantic, funny and hopeful' Dolly Alderton 'Such a lovely book!' Nigella Lawson 'You become so invested in the outcome of this romance that it makes the whole world shimmer with a kind of secret possibility' Observer 'The irresistible feel of a classic romance' Mail on Sunday One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times A book of the year pick in the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Mail on Sunday, GQ, Good Housekeeping, NetGalley and Red Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction 2024 Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction 2024 Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award 2025 Shortlisted for Best Fiction Book at the British Book Awards 2025 ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS 'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does' EVENING STANDARD

David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten, The Understudy, One Day, Us, Sweet Sorrow and You Are Here. One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim: translated into 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide. His fourth novel, Us, was long-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction. His latest novel, You Are Here, was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller on publication. On screen, David has written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd, When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations, as well as of his own novels, Starter for Ten, One Day and Us. His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer. The Netflix adaptation of One Day was executive-produced by David.