So many thoughts are running through my head, the tears down my face but unequivocally this is what I believe love should be about. I will be ridiculed but I don’t care. I am a romantic by heart and I love all things romantic. I loved this story!!

In the beginning, I must admit when I read from Leon’s point of view I found it a struggle but that is because it was different. It wasn’t proper sentences, more like random thoughts by him. But when you get in the flow of the book, you see Leon grow in confidence and then his perspective begins to formulate better and he becomes whole.

This book has made me happy, I spent the book smiling. So much is going on, friendships are formed, mysteries to be solved, complete pig of an ex (that’s the PG rating of what I want to say), near misses and then that meet up. I always say this, I don’t care that we know what will happen, I am here for the journey. I love the journey that the characters go on to get where they need to be. By heck, this was a fab journey.

I am in awe of Tiffy, not only is she everything I’m not, shes tall I’m short, she’s gorgeous and most of all I WANT her flame-red hair! How can I be jealous of a book character but I am! Plus I want a post-it type of love like she has.

It is weird thinking of the main premise of the story, sharing someone’s bed but never meeting. I mean you just don’t know who you could end up with but it’s also a refreshing idea for a story and gives us a completely different take on a gorgeous love story.

The characters, and I mean all of them (bar 2), won my heart. They drive this book, they make this book heartfelt. The characters are dealing with different issues, and these aren’t the heart and flower issues. Everything is tackled delicately, and in a way that when Tiffy reflects, we reflect and we begin to see the truth. She has her own journey to go on, and this is not an easy one. It makes her more appealing to the reader because she is made real and she could be your friend. The whole ordeal had me raging, to experience that is no easy feat, but her own self-discovery is something that drew me to her and wants to go and get drunk with her because she is so much fun!

I am probably blinkered with this book, I’ve not read any reviews but I have seen the hype and I knew that I would love it before I read it. It’s my type of book when I’m not all up in the doom, gloom and ghosts. (Couldn’t think of a word to rhyme). I am a sucker for hearts and flowers, Prince Charming and the eccentric type of love and for me, this book has it all. If a book can make my face hurt from smiling so much, it’s done a job for me. I already feel this is a book that I will read again. It is such an easy and fun read, why would I not! And yes it’s so going to be on my book list at the end of the year, how can it not!!

I can’t wait to read The Switch and I have spied a new book coming out next year so I will quickly be adding that to my TBR list. I am excited already and I have not even read the blurb! LOL.

I have FINALLY read the Flatshare after so many months of it sitting on my Kindle. The hype doesn't lie, this is a gorgeous romance and made me feel all kinds of things! It will set your heart aflutter. Simply gorgeous.

Sorry for late review - just catching up after a busy 6 months. Loved this book a lot - know it's had mixed reviews but I would recommend

I love, love, love this book....

The characters were all very likeable except for Justin and Martin (you will soon see why) and I would love friends like Tiffy and Rachel, Getty, Mo and Leon.

A feel good novel that will definitely leave you wanting more.

I am kicking myself for not reading The Flatshare sooner, it has been languishing on my TBR ever since it came out and it is such a brilliant read.

Tiffy has been living in her ex’s flat and finally decides to move out when he parades his girlfriend through his property. I have to say I took an immediate dislike to him and wondered why on earth Tiffy still lived there.

Her new place is a flat where she will rent the bed when the other occupant is not there!!!!! Yeah you read that right! He works nightshifts Monday to Friday and stays with his girlfriend at weekends. Tiffy works Monday to Friday in the day so actually it makes sense… sort of!

Now once I had got my head around the flatshare, and so had Tiffy and her friends it does actually seem to work. It gives Tiffy a chance to get her head straight after her long overdue split from her ex, much to the delight of her friends. This is where the real story comes out about her relationship and it is much darker than I had realised as I had not really read the synopsis properly! So everything was a revelation and a shock.

As flat mates Tiffy and Leon, he is the other person in the flat by the way, never meet, they are the proverbial ships that pass in the night. They instead communicate by post-it notes, leaving messages and gradually they get to know each other. This relationship works really well, several months go by before an unexpectedly embarrassing and hilarious bumping into each other finally happens.

The author has created such an addictive one sitting read that I was loath to put down for even a second. The way she created and worked this storyline is just brilliant, there is a nervous start as you would expect when two people live together, but this is where it gets interesting. They are strangers and therefore they find it easier to communicate with each other through the notes they leave. So as I read I got to know them and about their individual lives as they also got to know each other.

Woven into this getting to know each other storyline, there is also other plots that emerge. For Tiffy it is a darker thread, one that makes her realise about her past and gives her the chance to deal with how she will shape her future. For Leon it is about getting justice for his brother and again about how he wants his life to pan out.

This was a brilliant read and I adored everything about it, the pacing the characters the story just completely worked for me. There is a balance between the darker moments with funny occurrences and mishaps. There is a sense of friendship and of finding things that are right for each individual. It is a book that readers who are after a human interest storyline that has moments of humour injected into, it shows how an obsessive personality can change a person and how friends are there when needed.

Yeah I loved The Flatshare and I would Highly Recommend it.

A very enjoyable nice easy read. Written well with characters you can relate to and grow to love. Highly recommended

A great read, explore the friendships and past/present relationships of a young woman Tiffy who shares a one bedroom flat with a Leon who works nights, she works days and occupies the bed at night and he vice versa.

This debut has been a hugely hyped in the bookish community. It tells the story of Tiffy Moore, who works in publishing and desperately needs a cheap flat, and Leon Twomey, who works nights and needs cash. They find a strange, but convenient solution: Leon lives in the flat in the day, Tiffy lives in the flat at night. They share the same flat and even the same bed, and yet they’ve never met. It’s a great concept and I loved the handwritten notes they shared while not meeting, but I really wasn’t convinced by this book in the first 100 pages. I found it quite slow moving and the characters not particularly engaging. But as soon as the pair actually met and their chemistry started to build, it really picked up for me. I liked the set of well-developed side characters – Mo, Gerty and Rachel – and I was impressed by how sensitively it handled the topic of emotional abuse, as well as Leon’s brother’s wrongful imprisonment. While this didn’t blow me away enough to think it was truly deserving of all the hype it had last year, I did enjoy it and I would happily pick up Beth O’Leary’s second book, The Switch, which has just published.

This book was set in London, although we get to see brief glimpses of other cities throughout the story. I didn't get a real London vibe whilst reading and some of the 'London-y' things seemed a bit forced? Who knows, I've been to London more times than I care to remember so perhaps the city is just old news to me. The other places visited, some of them I haven't been to myself so I can't make a judgement but I didn't get enough descriptiveness. This book is heavily focused on the two main characters rather than setting actual scenes up and making them full-bodied. 

I much preferred Leon, I found he was a lot more like myself - quiet until you feel comfortable with someone, doesn't really let on feelings etc. He was the more believable one and the one I wouldn't mind being real. Tiffy on the other hand, I struggled with a little. I found her outrageously funny and I liked her dress sense but she ticked me off more than I wanted. I don't read a book to get irritated, I read one as an escape and it gets a bit awkward when you want to escape a character in a book. But like I said, there were some qualities about her that didn't immediately wash me in growling bear mode.

Both main characters had their own stuff to deal with however I found Tiffy's issue had a larger portion of that pie. Abuse is not easy to talk about, it comes in a range of forms and it can be quite upsetting to some. I have dealt with abuse like the one in the book and I was not expecting to read about it here. There were no warnings for me but luckily the abuse I suffered was not as severe so I wasn't too troubled by it. Leon's issue I do not have experience with and was kinda refreshing to read about. 

I read an eARC of this book and so I have no idea if the formatting transferred to the final published work, but it was tough to read. Leon's POV in particular was hard, especially when there was conversation involved. The notes sometimes weren't immediately clear on who wrote them. HOWEVER, I really enjoyed it and I can only put that down to the chemistry of Tiffy & Leon. Together, they worked well on the page and that's all I can ask for in a rom-com.

Thanks to the publishers for this arc. I was hooked by the refreshingly original concept of this books, so eager to read this and what a bundle of joy this was.
This follows two people. First you have Tiffy, who works for a publishing company, Butterfingers, who publish books on arts and crafts. Tiffy has been dumped by her boyfriend, Justin, and is looking for somewhere cheap to rent. She comes across a Gumtree ad that is subletting it's flat for £350. The deal is that the tenant will have the flat from 6pm-8am, and the rest of the time the owner will be there. The owner of the flat is Leon, a night-time palliative nurse, who is illegally subletting his flat for quick cash to pay for his younger brother's lawyer, who is in jail and fighting for an appeal. Tiffy agrees to the arrangement and moves. Soon her and Leon start leaving each other notes...but they have never met...
This was a fun read. I enjoyed Tiffy's quirky nature, she was an enjoyable protagonist as was Leon. I did find Leon's narrative style a bit of an adjustment to read, but once you get into the writing flows. There were lots of sweet subplots, and lovely secondary characters. My only gripe is that I felt the characters meet each other too soon, and fall in love with each other quite quickly, that for me I felt like there wasn't enough internal conflict and the second half of the book became rather predictable. However, other than that this was an uplifting, and warm book, and I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for Beth O'Leary's future books. 4/5

What a brilliant book. Beautifully written, great characters and just a really fabulous read. Loved every minute of reading this book. Thank you for letting me review it Beth and Netgalley.

Okay, I am SO late to the party but can we just all agree that THE FLATSHARE is perfection?! This is the ideal pick-me-up read for if you’re feeling a little depressed with everything that is going on. It will it make you smile and laugh out loud, and I totally didn’t cry with emotion at the end of the book!

As a book editor, I related to Tiffy so well - I have definitely had my share of ‘Crochet Your Way’s to deal with - and Leon is wonderful in his quiet resolve. And as I am also an editor whose boyfriend is a medic, the two worlds in which the lovebirds reside is all so familiar to me, so much so I couldn’t put it down!

Guaranteed to cheer you up, this is a non-negotiable must-read! Now, I just have to wait (im)patiently for the publication of O’Leary’s next book THE SWITCH later this month. What a debut!

While the idea of a flat-sharing arrangement that includes sharing a bed may seem a bit far fetched, this novel from Beth O'Leary seems to make it work. While Tiffy and Leon share a flat, and a bed, without meeting each other for the first 4 months, they develop a great friendship through the use of post-it notes, which helps both of them through some hard times.

Well written with likeable characters and an easy narrative style, The Flatshare was funny, heart-warming and covered some issues that may be disturbing to some readers but were definitely topics that are a fact of everyday life for some.

The absolute perfect summer beach read. I got though it in one entertaining sitting and will be sure to recommend to friends.

I absolutely love every aspect of this book, and if I sit here and talk, I could wax beautiful poetry about it for the next 5 hours, but some of us our busy with their lives and need to get going, so I’ll just wrap this up by saying that YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK NOW!

Sometimes sharing a bed isn't all it seems.

Beth O'leary has managed to come up with an alternative take on sharing a flat with a stranger. The concept of sharing a flat and a bed with a stranger that you never meet due to one working days and the other nights alone is enough to keep me reading this book to see how that turns out for the characters.

Although I would call this genre chick-lit, it still had enough in the story to prevent it from being just another love story. Both of the main characters are very likeable and I could see this book being easily turned into a quirky television series.

If you want a nice feel good tale then this one is for you.

It's been a long time since I have read... I'm tempted to call this book a romantic comedy but isn't completely because one character's back story is anything but romantic, and there are moments of jeopardy in the book. Anyway, I was curious about The Flatshare because it received a huge amount of marketing buzz when it was released. Would it live up to the buzz I wondered as I listened to it on my dog walks? Well yes, actually. Its charming and pacy with two very sympathetic memorable characters and a fantastic premise. It kept me thoroughly entertained.

This is a brilliantly fun story.

I read it in record time, pausing only to switch on the light when it became too dark to read easily. The characters are mostly fun and friendly. The writing is witty, fun and the insights into the relationship between Leon and Tiffy - WOW just WOW!

It is a fun, quick, easy read story that captivates the reader. Highly recommended.

Wow! Took me a while to get round to this but I loved it. At some point I found myself getting a bit irritated with tiffy but then I started empathising with her and seeing things from her POV. Loved it was a slow burner and there was a multiple sub-stories but they never ever distract from the main story. Also like that you can tell just from the writing style who’s chapter was who. Really got a feel for the difference in characters.

I have seen so many wonderful reviews for The Flatshare that I had to pick it up and what a brilliant book!

Tiffy is a wonderful larger than life character with a quirky dress sense who is trying to move on and overcome her emotions from her previous relationship.

Leon is battling just to keep his head above water, working constant night shifts and trying to help his brother and feeling like he isn't getting anywhere.

This story jumps from the pages and you quickly get to know how lovely Tiffy is and how her and Leon in the most unlikely of circumstances start to forge a friendship through post it notes and leftovers.

An emotionally charged read that will keep you reading into the early hours of the morning as you just have to know what comes next for these wonderful characters.