The Flatshare

About the book

What if your roommate is your soul mate? A joyful, quirky romantic comedy, Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare is a feel-good novel about finding love in the most unexpected of ways. Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He’ll only ever be there when she’s at the office. In fact, they’ll never even have to meet. Tiffy and Leon start writing each other notes – first about what day is garbage day, and politely establishing what leftovers are up for grabs, and the evergreen question of whether the toilet seat should stay up or down. Even though they are opposites, they soon become friends. And then maybe more. But falling in love with your roommate is probably a terrible idea...especially if you've never met.

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.9 across 458 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 75% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Romance average of 7.7. That is how 7.9 comes out.

Reader voices

The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).

• “The setup for this story is far too predictable: two people in desperate straits arrange to share a flat (and even a single bed) by alternating day and night shifts. They won't meet and it will all be fine. Find me one person who doesn't…”

  ★ 4/5alexherder on Hardcover

• “Loved this book, and decided to listen to it. The narrators were good, and it was soo nice to be able to hear this story come to life.”

  ★ 5/5neeno on Hardcover

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