Nicholls’ ‘You Are Here’, a book about two strangers walking coast to coast through the Lake District and Yorkshire Moors and trying to find love along the way, is so unlike the type of book I am usually gravitate to but I take my grandads’ recommendations as gospel and therefore gave it a go. It wasn’t much remarkable, just a simple story of the walk that honestly made me want to take the ramble coast to coast as it sounded absolutely gorgeous, despite the rain and hikes up mountains throughout. 

It was an extremely current book which took me aback at places, taking jabs at the Romantics in a very human way as the quote I picked up illustrates, or referencing pop culture and calling me out claiming that every basic man likes George Orwell and the Shawshank Redemption (the former is the one that applies here I have never seen Shawshank). It also made reference to the 2020 pandemic which seeing appear in literature was terrifying considering the passing of time and felt weird because that time still feels as if it were so current. It made some nice remarks on love and loneliness, especially being a love story between two divorcees now in their forties but I did find myself getting annoyed by the occurrence every day of almost going home and then choosing to stay and keep walking, such got very repetitive. The characters were nothing remarkable, alike to the plot, but served their purpose and made what was a surprisingly quaint and enjoyable read, yet nothing monumental by any means.