-
Your next favorite book
is waiting.
Summary | Discuss | Reviews | More Information | Read-Alikes
From the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day, one of the most enduring love stories of its generation, comes an uplifting and unputdownable contemporary romance about second chances.
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way ...
Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he'll do anything to avoid his empty house.
Marnie, a witty copy-editor, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she's battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it's passing her by.
When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together in a classic case of forced proximity on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for.
Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future ... if they can survive the journey.
A hilarious, hopeful, and heartwarming romantic comedy—the novel beloved New York Times bestselling author David Nicholls calls "my funniest book yet"—You Are Here is a bittersweet and hopeful story of first encounters, second chances, and finding the way home.
Kirkus finalists announced!
FICTION https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-3077-0015-5 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth) https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780063318779 The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (Mariner Books) https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780593730089 Isola by Allegra Goodman (Dial Pres...
-kim.kovacs
What are you reading this week? (8/21/2025)
I just finished: When the cranes fly south Lisa Rizden Theo of Golden Allen Levi You are here David Nicholls My Friend Fred Backman All were fabulous. Now starting There are Rivers in the Sky by Eli Shafak
-Beth_M
"Releasing in tandem with a renewed interest in Nicholls' blockbuster One Day, which has been newly adapted for Netflix, this book is sure to fill up hold lists." —Booklist (starred review)
"Given the witty dialogue and sublime natural settings (think Wordsworth and Brontë), it's not hard to imagine this as another of Nicholls' big-screen adaptations, like One Day. A relatable and satisfyingly realistic love story to cure any lingering lockdown blues." —Kirkus Reviews
"Fans of the author's previous books will get just what they came for." —Publishers Weekly
"You Are Here is a gorgeous, grown-up love story. I fell for Marnie and Michael hard and fast – this book is honest, raw, yet profoundly hopeful. This is the work of a writer at the peak of his enormous powers – it's one of the saddest stories I've ever read, and one of the funniest. A future classic" —Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
"Brilliant: just perfect and exquisitely written. Every page is a delight" —Jill Mansell, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Promise Me
This information about You Are Here was first featured
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.
Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Starter for Ten; The Understudy; One Day; Us, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; Sweet Sorrow; and You Are Here. He is also a screenwriter who has also written adaptations of Far from the Madding Crowd, When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations, as well as 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. Nicholls is also the Executive Producer and a contributing screenwriter on a new Netflix adaptation of One Day.
If you liked You Are Here, try these:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
