Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen are joined by Karla Crome and Tom Stourton in You Are Here

Karla Crome, Josiah Green-Mhlanga and Tom Stourton have joined Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen in You Are Here, the upcoming BBC and STARZ adaptation of David Nicholls’s bestselling novel.

Nicholls, whose previous work includes One Day, Starter for Ten and Us, has adapted his own book for the eight-part series, with Normal People and Room director Lenny Abrahamson behind the camera. Filming is set to begin soon in the Lake District and around Manchester, following the Coast to Coast walking route from Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire.

Foy stars as Marnie and Macfadyen as Michael, two people brought together for a group walking weekend by mutual friend Cleo, played by Crome. Green-Mhlanga will appear as Cleo’s son Anthony, while Stourton plays Conrad, a friend of Cleo’s husband and an unwilling addition to the hike. After the rest of the group falls away, Marnie and Michael unexpectedly continue the journey together, finding themselves drawn towards a relationship neither had been seeking.

The series reunites several of the creatives behind acclaimed literary adaptations, with Element Pictures producing and Abrahamson once again working with material centred on intimacy, connection and changing relationships. Foy and Macfadyen also serve as executive producers alongside Nicholls and Abrahamson.

Set against a cross-country walk through the English landscape, You Are Here shifts a developing romance away from the usual urban backdrop, using the physical journey from coast to coast as the setting for two characters attempting to move beyond loneliness and into something new.

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You Are Here does not have a release date yet.