So, in Julia Whelan’s book My Oxford Year, Jamie doesn’t explicitly die on the page, but he still has terminal cancer. Ultimately, he’s able to live a bit longer and go on this adventure he’d talked about with his love, who is named Anna in the movie and Ella in the book.

F ans of the new Netflix film, My Oxford Year, are buzzing with mixed emotions after seeing the show’s rollercoaster ending. The gripping romantic series, which was full of plot twists, brought an ending that was heartbreaking, but also heartwarming and deeply insightful.

The ‘rom-com’, loosely based on the book by American author Julia Whelan, who attended Oxford herself, concerns ambitious working-class New Yorker Anna (Sofia Carson), who is attending the University of Oxford to study Victorian poetry as a postgraduate.