You Are Here by David Nicholls
From the author of the bestselling One Day
Marnie is thirty-eight years old and feels like life is slipping through her fingers. Little by little, friends have gone their own ways – marriages, children – and now live in Hastings or Stevenage, Cardiff or York, while she remained in London, with the only company of her books, liters of tea and a remote control which he must not share with anyone. Every now and then she even ends up talking to the eggs in the fridge or questioning the damp stain in «Oh no, you again?» Not that her job immerses her in proofreading, as passionate as she is, it often relegates her to the role of discreet advisor who warns the author when she has a piece of salad between her teeth.
Michael is forty-two years old and doesn't know how to put together the pieces of his life, which was shattered when his wife left him. Although his profession leads him to always find himself surrounded by people, mostly high school students in whose little heads he tries to inculcate geography, his only comfort is long solitary walks on the moors. A natural sedative that he desperately needs but which is not understood by everyone, least of all by his colleague and friend Cleo, who continually offers to accompany him.
Until the generous offers become an obligation without escape and Michael finds himself a reluctant member of a group engaged in a trek that crosses England from coast to coast, from the Lake District to Robin Hood's Bay, passing through the verdant Dales and the gloomy of the windswept Moors. A group which also includes Marnie.
Between dives into frozen lakes and disastrous ascents in the rain, landscapes of English romance and unlikely playlists, Marnie and Michael will discover that they are experiencing the most unexpected of adventures, on the verge of a new friendship, or perhaps something more.
«Beautiful, melancholy, full of hope. You are here is pure Nicholls."
Dolly Alderton
«Splendid. Nicholls knows how to perfectly measure humor and pathos."
Tracy Chevalier
« You are here contains all the typical nuances of Nicholls, emotion, irony, intuition. But he also asks fundamental questions about love, life and solitude with unparalleled delicacy and elegance."
Elizabeth Day
«From the brilliant mind that gave us One Day , a new, irresistible love story».
Matt Haig
«David Nicholls is the poet laureate of the contemporary romance novel, and this is the best he has written so far».
John Niven
«A tender love story, full of joy and wisdom. I read it in one breath!»
Jojo Moyes
« You are hereit has exactly everything you could want from a book that is well-crafted in every detail, very funny, full of hope and love, and at times it breaks your heart."
Monica Heisey
«What a wonderful book!»
Nigella Lawson
