Paramount Plus<\/a>, was inspired by a period in her own life.<\/p>\nThe story follows two 30-somethings who share a small flat in London \u2013 so far so normal \u2013 with the catch being that they have never actually met each other.<\/p>\n
As hospice nurse Leon (Anthony Welsh) works nights, while online journalist Tiffany (Jessica Brown Findlay) has regular hours, they have devised a system by which they will never need to be home at the same time.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how they manage to sleep in the same bed each day without even knowing what the other looks like, communicating only though sticky notes left during the other\u2019s time in the flat.<\/p>
Author Beth O\u2019Leary got the idea for this unusual arrangement from a time in her life when she had relatively little contact with her then-boyfriend (now husband), due to their own working patterns.<\/p>\n
\u201c[He] was working as a junior doctor and worked lots of night shifts,\u201d she said at a Q&A event. \u201cWe lived together but we passed like ships in the night a lot of the time \u2013 I would be walking home from the station and sometimes see him going in the car to the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I would start to kind of piece together a sense of how his day had been from the little things around the place. So things like how many coffee mugs were by the sink (\u2018Aww, he didn\u2019t manage to finish his coffee\u2019) or the trainers by the back door (\u2018I\u2019m glad he had time to go for a run\u2019).\u201d<\/p>\n