Tiffy Moore needs to move out of her cheating ex-boyfriend’s apartment, but can’t afford the rent in London. So when she stumbles on an ad seeking a flatmate for a one-bedroom apartment, at the very affordable rent of only 350 pounds, she’s encouraged. But there’s a catch: the flat has only one bedroom. Tiffy will have the apartment from evening to morning, while L. Twomey, the person advertising, works a night job. Twomey will have the flat during the day, when Tiffy is at work. Tiffy and her flatmate will have to share a bed without ever sleeping in it at the same time.

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. 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!I listened to it on audio and it took me a bit to really get into the rhytmn of Leon’s speech patterns. BTW, the audio narrators are excellent. First, what can be noted is the general visual - a pleasant and juicy picture, just like on the cover. 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. The Flatshare arrives in December 2022. (Image credit: Paramount Plus) Is there a trailer for The Flatshare? It’s more than a little convenient that Tiffy’s friends Mo and Gerty are a counselor and a criminal justice lawyer. I was willing to overlook this coincidence because they were so great to Leon and Tiffy, and interesting in their own right. Mo was patient while Gerty was anything but.

One thing did surprise me: there was no mention of Tiffy’s family until the epilogue, when there’s a reference to something her dad said. I was startled to learn that Tiffy had a living father, and apparently a supportive one at that. Where were you all along? was my thought in response to that.) 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. Interlude of chanting]: I am trying to be less cynical. I can be a cynical person without just being a cynic. I can let nice things happen if other people like them. Disney World is a viable place to go on holiday as an adult. I am trying to be less cynical, I am trying to be less cynical. The book is narrated in first person present tense and the viewpoint alternates between Leon and Tiffy by chapter. Leon’s narration style is different from Tiffy’s and takes a little getting used to. He thinks in pared-down lists and when we are in his POV, the dialogue shifts to something like playwriting format: character name, colon, their dialogue, next character name, colon, their dialogue. It took a couple of short chapters to get comfortable with. Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays Tiffany in The Flatshare, says: "Tiff has had her heart broken by her ex-boyfriend when we meet her. She’s still consumed by what was a really toxic relationship, but the more she leaves that behind, the more we see her best qualities.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 has use of the flat during the day. (Image credit: Paramount Plus) The Flatshare cast —Jessica Brown Findlay on playing Tiffany

This novel is a great example of the friends-to-lovers trope. I stayed up until two in the morning while reading because the book was sweet, absorbing and enjoyable. A-. 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. Photograph: Paramount The Flatshare stars Jessica Brown Findlay and Anthony Welsh Everything we know so far about the new ‘Flatshare’ adaptation It’spartly directed by The Full Monty filmmaker Peter Cattaneo andis filming in Bristol, London and Brighton. 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.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 and Anthony Welsh star together in The Flatshare. (Image credit: Paramount Plus) The Flatshare release date 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.

I used to be quite cynical about romcoms. Oh the two leads are going to fall in love, are they? Will they squabble when they first meet, then slowly grow to bring the best out of each other? Perhaps she has two men to choose from and one is the worst man on the face of the planet, yes, but he is sexy in quite a dangerous way? At some point will she fall over and suffer a very minor injury? Will there be a series of avoidable misunderstandings leading to a second-act argument that threatens to derail everything? Finally kissing in the snow? Come on. Give me a break. MaryK: Oh, I adored Tiffy. I loved her quirky sense f style and how much she loved her job and how good she was at it. I loved her openness and the way it was contrasted with Leon’s personality. I loved her kindness to him and to Richie. And her fragility with regard to Justin resonated with me. Not that i didn’t love Leon too—he was great. MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Principal photography wrapped in late-May 2022. Filming took place in Bristol, Brighton and London. 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 Brown Findlay as Lady Sybil (on far right) in the first series of 'Downton Abbey'. (Image credit: ITV) Anthony Welsh on playing Leon 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. Like a British Emily in Paris … Tiffany (Jessica Brown Finlay) in The Flatshare. Photograph: 42/Paramount I knew The Flatshare (Paramount+) was going to be unrealistic when, in the opening scenes, Tiffany moves into her new rented flat and almost immediately bangs a picture hook into the wall. This, I thought, is a woman who has never had to deal with an estate agent’s punitive charges. The flat turns out not to be Tiffany’s, at least not entirely: this is an adaptation of the 2019 novel by Beth O’Leary, and follows an untraditional flatsharing arrangement. Tiffany has the flat from 8pm to 8am and at weekends; she has entered into an agreement with Leon, a night nurse trying to earn extra money for what obviously turns out to be extremely big-hearted reasons, who gets his own flat from 8am to 8pm, and stays with his annoying girlfriend at weekends. 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.