You Are Here

By (author) David Nicholls
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The new novel by beloved bestseller David Nicholls.
A story of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.

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THE LOVE STORY OF THE YEAR
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way

''A triumph, a real gift of a novel''
Sunday Times

''Romantic, funny and hopeful''
Dolly Alderton

''Sharp-tongued and irresistible''
New Yok Times

''Written with charm and wit, it even made me consider walking the Northumberland Coast Path''
Jacqueline Wilson

''It makes you want to tell someone - anyone - that you love or care about them''
Independent

''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


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?


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

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

''Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love''
THE TIMES

''No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does''
EVENING STANDARD

''Genuinely brilliant''
NEW STATESMAN
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The Remains of the Day crossed with Michael Winterbottom''s The Trip, only with more Gore-Tex . . . You Are Here is a triumph, a real gift of a novel, and it deserves to join One Day on the bestseller charts immediately
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I''m helplessly competitive and highly irritated that I can''t remember all the books I''ve read since 1 January. I''ll just name my three favourite novels from the first half of the year. No. 1 is You Are Here by David Nicholls, a love story between two unlikely characters, the oldest plot in the book, but written with charm and wit. It even made me consider walking the Northumberland Coast Path - though I''ve yet to buy my walking boots
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Captivating . . . Nicholls is rightfully attached to his central couple and their baggage of cherished neuroses, until he accepts that he has to decide on a happy ending or something more bittersweet, and how to earn either. He succeeds beautifully. Nicholls''s d