Cast your mind back to February 2024 and the chances are you’ll have been weeping. No, not because Cupid failed to bring you any Valentine’s Day cards (...again), but because you’ll have been watching the coming-of-age tearjerker One Day .
Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod acted the hell out of Dexter and Emma’s complicated relationship, bringing a whole new generation of fans to David Nicholls’s original book. Now another title from Nicholls’s back catalogue, You Are Here , is being adapted for TV. Better still, the leads are Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen. Here’s everything we know so far about You Are Here .
What’s the story? You Are Here , first released in 2024, is another romance story, told, like One Day , in alternating chapters from the points of view of a man and a woman. Here, that man and woman are Marnie Walsh (to be played by Claire Foy), a 38-year-old divorced copy editor from London, and Michael Bradshaw (Macfadyen), a 42-year-old geography teacher from York who is separated from his wife, Natasha.
Marnie and Michael end up on the real-life Coast to Coast walk, which stretches from St Bees on the west coast, on the Irish Sea, to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east coast, on the...