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THE LOVE STORY OF THE YEAR 

‘A triumph, a real gift of a novel’ 

Sunday Times 

‘Romantic, funny and hopeful’ 

Dolly Alderton 

‘Pure pleasure in a paperback’ 

The Guardian, Books of the Summer 

‘It makes you want to tell someone – anyone – that you love or care about them’ 

Independent 

 

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way… 

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? 

 

‘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 

 

One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times 

A book of the year pick in the GuardianObserverIndependentMail 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