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I read your debut contemporary two weeks ago, a book I think many DA readers would like. It’s an epistolary romance called The Flatshare. First, what can be noted is the general visual - a pleasant and juicy picture, just like on the cover. Jonah Hauer King in BBC1's 'World On Fire'. (Image credit: BBC) The Flatshare novel by Beth O'Leary Playing Tiffany and Leon are Jessica Brown Findlay ( The Riot Club , Munich: The Edge of War ) and Anthony Welsh ( The Great, Fleabag ) It’ll be a definite change of bathroom size for Brown Findlay, who is best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey.

There’s a subtlety to the characterization and a light touch to the novel but there’s also some emotional heft. Things get more serious as the book unfolds, but all of it is handled delicately and thoughtfully. Anthony Welsh as hospice worker Leon in The Flatshare. (Image credit: Paramount Plus) Who else is starring in The Flatshare Like a British Emily in Paris … Tiffany (Jessica Brown Finlay) in The Flatshare. Photograph: 42/Paramount a b Yossman, K.J. (28 February 2022). "Jessica Brown Findlay, Anthony Welsh Set for U.K. Paramount Plus Series 'Flatshare' ". Variety . Retrieved 4 March 2022. I loved this book. The story unfolds as it goes along and you gradually realize there’s a lot more going on than it seemed at first. I wasn’t all that impressed initially because at the beginning Tiffy seems kind of shallow and flighty. I continued reading because I loved Leon’s POV. He’s an introvert who doesn’t talk a lot and his POV is full of staccato, abbreviated sentences. (They remind me of medical charting which makes sense given his profession.) This may be the first book I’ve read where I identify more with the hero than the heroine.SusanS: LOL. I read a library copy too and then bought it when it went on that one-day sale on Cyber Monday. a b British Period Dramas (20 October 2022). " 'The Flatshare' trailer: Jessica Brown Findlay from 'Downton' stars in new rom-com". British Period Dramas . Retrieved 22 November 2022. L. Twomey turns out to be Leon Twomey, a palliative care nurse who has taken the night shifts for the extra pay. Leon needs the money to fund his effort to overturn his younger brother Richie’s unjust conviction of armed robbery. Leon’s girlfriend, Kay, is unhappy about the flats-sharing arrangement but agrees that she can’t continue to loan Leon money to pay the lawyer who’s working on his brother’s appeal. Still, she insists on vetting Tiffy. When she does, she’s relieved to assess her as no threat. But to be on the safe side, Kay insists that Leon and Tiffy never meet. Browning, Matt (3 December 2022). "The Flatshare star pays tribute to 'patient' and 'encouraging' Jo Martin". Daily Express . Retrieved 17 December 2022. The Flatshare arrives in December 2022. (Image credit: Paramount Plus) Is there a trailer for The Flatshare?

Principal photography wrapped in late-May 2022. Filming took place in Bristol, Brighton and London. The Flatshare is set in London and follows Tiffany (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Leon (Anthony Welsh) are both low earners, struggling to afford somewhere to rent in the Uk capital. Tiffany's been through a bad break-up and needs somewhere fast but cheap. So between them they concoct an ingenious idea to split the costs by sharing a bed. Tiffy and Leon’s voices, indeed their personalities, seem to become more similar as the story progresses; initially this felt like a flaw, but perhaps this is also true of real-life relationships – the more time you spend with someone else the more alike the two of you become. I adored this book. I was so curious as to how the author would get the concept to work, but by golly she did it. It was so darned charming. Consider ringing her and Putting Foot Down for approximately three seconds before reaching inevitable conclusion that that would be awkward and, in a few days, I will have stopped caring. Probably stopped noticing, actually.”

Jessica admits to being no stranger to strange flatshares during her student days. "When I was a student in London I saved cash by renting a living room in a shared house,’ she explains. ‘I thought it was a great idea at the time, but it meant everyone was in my bedroom all day long until 10pm! Tiffy is quirky and accepting; for example, she’s tall but open to dating someone shorter (Leon is tall too, though) and nice to the crochet lady. And she is gabby and social and warm. I didn’t feel at all let down when they met in person, though. if anything it got even better for me at that point. I think Justin needed to be a big part of the story because understanding that relationship was Tiffy’s arc.

Tiffany is a journalist. A chef I know couldn’t sit through 10 minutes of The Bear because he said it was a busman’s holiday. I tried to watch Danny Boyle’s Yesterday with a musician, who drowned out most of the dialogue with an excessively detailed grumble about the impracticalities of the way it portrayed recording contracts. In the same vein, journalists cannot endure TV shows about journalists without bursting a blood vessel or three. The soft-focus Tiffany inexplicably works for an edgy online magazine that seems a bit like Vice, in that it occasionally mentions ketamine and, er, street art, but it is called Bother, which mostly makes me think of posh old ladies dropping handkerchiefs and not wanting to swear in front of the great-grandchildren. Oh, Bother! Someone’s done an edgy content. Secondly, the atmosphere of a diverse :) and modern London, filled with living characters, easily immerses the viewer in the action of events. P. S. We especially observe this effect when viewed with headphones. The tone of the novel starts out frothy and light but the storyline becomes more substantial as the books continues. The concept of leaving one another notes without meeting was a wonderful vehicle for a great meet-cute. Better yet, it allowed the characters to get to know each other as people as well as have sexytimes. Leon is a quieter, more introverted person and likes to make decisions slowly, in a thoughtful manner. He doesn’t have Tiffy’s impulsivity or her social nature, but he’s terrific with his patients and later, supportive and understanding of Tiffy.Jessica Brown Findlay as Lady Sybil (on far right) in the first series of 'Downton Abbey'. (Image credit: ITV) Anthony Welsh on playing Leon There is definitely a gap in the market for a new streaming series about being a twentysomething London enduring the city’s maddening rental market… and Flatshare could well be that show.

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