Meet the Cast Bringing BookTok’s Beloved Barry’s Bay to Life in Prime Video’s ‘Every Year After’
When Amazon Prime Video announced it had ordered a series adaptation of Carley Fortune’s debut novel ‘Every Summer After’, BookTok held its collective breath. The source material had already proven its cultural staying power, spending sixteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and crossing the one million copy mark in sales. Choosing the right cast to embody Percy Fraser, Sam Florek, and the rest of Barry’s Bay’s unforgettable ensemble was never going to be a small decision.
The show, retitled ‘Every Year After’ for its Prime Video run, is a friends-to-lovers, second-chance summer romance set in the idyllic cottage town of Barry’s Bay. With all eight episodes dropping simultaneously on June 10, 2026, audiences finally get to see whether the assembled cast can translate the novel’s emotional intensity into something equally devastating on screen.
Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett Lead the Way
‘Every Year After’ stars Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett as Percy and Sam, the couple at the center of the love story. The casting of Soverall, in particular, sparked immediate excitement among fans of the book. The 24-year-old British actress is known for playing Oxford student Annabel in ‘Saltburn’, and she and her costar Abigail Cowen previously appeared together in ‘Fate: The Winx Saga’, making ‘Every Year After’ something of a mini reunion for the two.
Soverall’s path to the role is the kind of story that feels almost as romantic as the show itself. She was originally spotted by a talent agent during a school production of ‘Twelfth Night’, in which she played Viola. From stage discovery to leading a major streaming romance adaptation, it is a trajectory that neatly mirrors the themes of the story she is now bringing to life.
Cornett arrives with his own devoted fanbase in tow. He is best known for his role as E.J. Caswell on the Disney+ series ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’, a role he played across four seasons. Taking on Sam Florek, a character beloved by over a million book readers, was not something he took lightly. Speaking to Elle, Cornett admitted, “With an IP as big as this book, there is this sense of, like, ‘I have to get this right.’ And so I was really nervous about not getting it right. There were those voices of doubt in my head. I remember just shoving those down, shoving those down. And the second I did my first scene with Michael Bradway, he eased all my nerves.”
The Florek Brothers and the Supporting Cast
The supporting ensemble includes Aurora Perrineau as Chantal, Abigail Cowen as Delilah, Michael Bradway as Charlie Florek, Joseph Chiu as Jordie, and Elisha Cuthbert as Sue Florek. Cuthbert, who plays Sam and Charlie’s mother, brings significant screen experience to the table. She first rose to prominence as a child television presenter before landing her breakthrough role as Kim Bauer in the action thriller series ’24’.
The dynamic between Bradway and Cornett as the Florek brothers quickly became one of the most talked-about elements of the production. The two described an instant real-life friendship, with Bradway recalling that during their chemistry read on Zoom, the producers turned off their cameras to give the pair a ten-minute unscripted introduction, and the connection was immediate. That natural ease between the two actors matters enormously in a story where the bond between the brothers is just as pivotal as the central romance.
Cowen’s casting also carries a pleasing symmetry. She and Soverall previously played sisters in ‘Fate: The Winx Saga’, with Cowen as Bloom and Soverall as Beatrix, and now they are reunited as close friends Percy and Delilah in Barry’s Bay. For fans of the Netflix fantasy series, watching that dynamic shift into a summer romance setting carries its own small thrill.
The Creative Team Behind the Camera
The ensemble does not exist in a vacuum. The creative architecture supporting them is equally impressive. Showrunner Amy B. Harris is best known for her work producing ‘Sex and the City’ and developing its prequel series ‘The Carrie Diaries’. That résumé makes her an intuitively fitting choice for a story built around love, memory, and the lasting weight of choices made in youth.
Speaking to Teen Vogue, Harris said she knew she had to “honor the book and the characters and then expand it so it could be a series that could go on for years to come.” That ambition is reflected in the care taken with casting, a process that Carley Fortune herself followed closely. Fortune told the outlet, “I was shown the chemistry tapes, which were unreal, and there was no point at which I felt like, ‘No, not this person.'”
With a cast this considered and a creative team this invested, ‘Every Year After’ arrives on Prime Video with something genuinely rare for a BookTok adaptation: the feeling that everyone involved actually read the book. Drop your thoughts on the casting in the comments and let us know which character you are most excited to see come to life.
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