Author : Beth O’Leary
Narrators : Carrie Hope Fletcher, Kwaku Fortune
Genre : Romance
Publisher : Macmillan Audio
Listening Length : 9 hours 58 minutes
Rating : 3.8/5
Narrator Rating : 4.5/5
Tiffany Rose Moore needs a place to live. The budget is small, and on the edge of desperation Tiffy decides to answer an advertisement for a flatshare. Leon Twome, a palliative care nurse, will use the flat in the daytime and she’ll use it in the evenings and night. Their paths will not across; they need not even ever meet.
As time passes, necessary communication is through little hand-written notes. Despite all the settling-in adjustments, all is going smoothly until one day when Tiffy is late to work and they both are in the apartment at the same time.
The Flatshare is a quirky romance. Tiffy and Leon are two very different people – she’s an excitable extrovert with eccentric fashion tastes and he’s a quiet, reticent introvert. They’re both kind and funny in their own way and very easy to like, so you’re rooting for them to get-together.
The book was a quick, easy read – very sweet and endearing. The one nit I do have is about the glib dialogues and the onslaught of witty repartee – who is that witty all the time? I really enjoyed the narration – Carrie Hope Fletcher is near perfection as the tremulously brave Tiffy, and Kwaku Fortune’s Irish Brogue nicely fleshes out Leon’s character in my mind’s eye.
