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You Had Me At Hello

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What to expect

What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling comedy from #1 bestseller Mhairi McFarlane

‘Think of the great duos of history. We're just like them.’

‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?’

‘I think you’ve missed the point, Rachel.’

Rachel and Ben. Ben and Rachel. It was them against the world. Until it all fell apart. It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away.

They’d been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on: Ben is married. Rachel is not. Yet in that split second, Rachel feels the old friendship return. And along with it, the broken heart she’s never been able to mend.

Hilarious, heartbreaking and everything in between, you’ll be hooked from their first ‘hello’.

‘Very very witty and funny. Left me in awe … a total gem’ Marian Keyes

‘The funniest, most romantic book I've read since One Day’ Lisa Jewell

Critics Review

'Very very witty and funny. Left me in awe ... a total gem' Marian Keyes

'The funniest, most romantic book I've read since One Day' Lisa Jewell

'I loved this book. It made me laugh and reminded me that anything's possible in love - and in everything else for that matter' Minnie Driver

'I loved this: an original, genuinely funny, genuinely moving, modern love story' Katy Regan

'Mhairi is darkly funny and quite, quite rude ... You Had Me at Hello is a breath of tart, Northern air' Sarra Manning

'Bitingly sharp and achingly funny ... guaranteed to have you bent double. I absolutely loved it!' Claudia Carroll

Author Mhairi McFarlane
Narrator Julie Hesmondhalgh
Duration 10 hours and 27 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780007519712
Format x-book®
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Genre Contemporary romance, Humour
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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