“I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport, or in a traffic jam.

“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”

So says Dolly Alderton in her bestselling book, Everything I Know About Love, which has been branded a must-read for anyone who has ever fallen in (or out of) love. And now it seems as if her brilliant coming-of-age story is about to become a must-watch, too, as the BBC has unveiled its seriously stellar cast for the upcoming TV adaptation.

Everything I Know About Love: the starry cast of Dolly Alderton’s new TV series is ridiculously good