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Mhairi McFarlane — 2015

An achingly funny story from the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO What s the one thing you do at a wedding? Kiss your groom. What s the one thing you DON T do at a wedding? Kiss someone else s groom. When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues wedding, all the blame falls on her turns out that personal popularity in the office is not that different from your schooldays. Ostracised by everyone she knows, shamed online, her boss suggests an extended sabbatical. He has the perfect project to fill it ghostwriting an autobiography for hot new acting talent, Elliot Owen. All she has to do is keep her head down and get on with the star. Easy, right? Wrong. Banished back to her home town of Nottingham, Edie is not only dealing with a celebrity megabrat of epic proportions but also facing the ghosts of her past as she moves back in with her widowed father and layabout sister. As she questions the woman she has become, Edie realises that turning to look at her past is not just painful it could potentially change her future."

Reviews

Riya@litheaven

Feb 9, 2024

I would have liked the mc's character development but it was made to be happened because of a man, which felt really shallow to me. the same support and courage could have easily been given to her by her friends who have known her for years. Yes, every person is different and we can grow because of someone we are in love with, and not necessarily because of our friends/family but here it felt tawdry. Now the romance. I liked their dynamic through the better part of the book, it was also a slow burn romance (my favourite) but by the end I was getting annoyed because of some things Elliot said to our mc. Their separation didn’t have any affect on me and I was just rolling my eyes while reading that. The last thing which really irked me was that author compared someone’s bad singing to a “jihadist attack”. Just, no.

Kit@nightswimming

Aug 14, 2022

** spoiler alert ** Spoiler alert review: easily readable, very funny, a bit YA (so very now) but you can't write chick lit [spoiler alert again] with the lovers not ending together because the girl makes the sensible choice of staying with her family in Nottingham (of all places) and not following the gorgeous, witty actor on his big break in hollywood. Not credible, and not fulfilling. Just saying.