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You always remember your first love. Don’t you…?

’I loved it! So funny and warm. A delicious read’ Marian Keyes

’Hilarious, warm and life affirming’ Jenny Colgan

It began with four words.

‘I love your laugh. x’

But that was twelve years ago. It really began the day Georgina was fired from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield (© Tripadvisor) and found The Worst Boyfriend in the World (© Georgina’s best friends) in bed with someone else.

So when her new boss, Lucas McCarthy, turns out to be the boy who wrote those words to her all that time ago, it feels like the start of something.

The only problem? He doesn’t seem to remember Georgina – at all…

This irresistible new book from Mhairi McFarlane is the perfect story to escape with. Compulsively readable, absolutely hilarious and deliciously romantic, you will not be able to put it down.

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Its time to fall in love with Mhairi McFarlane...

Mhairi McFarlane is the author of eight romcom books. Born in Scotland in 1976, she now lives in Nottingham, with a man and a cat.

Don’t miss the brilliant and hilarious new romantic comedy, Mad About You, coming April 2022 from the queen of romcoms, a heart-warming, laugh-out loud story of love, friendship and past mistakes.


	Mad about You	Last Night	If I Never Met You	Don't You Forget About Me	Who's That Girl?	It's Not Me It's You
	The brand new romcom coming April 2022	'I loved, loved, loved this book’ Marian Keyes, 2021	'A total joy to read’ Louise O’Neill, 2020	‘Beautiful, funny and heartbreaking’ Giovanna Fletcher, 2019	‘Totally hilarious and wincingly real’ Jenny Colgan, 2016	‘Witty, sharp and giggle-inducing’ Heat, 2014

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‘I loved it! So funny and warm – a delicious read’ Marian Keyes

‘Wildly funny and wildly romantic… Another wonderful novel from an author at the top of her game’ Louise O’Neill

‘Beautiful, funny and heartbreaking’ Giovanna Fletcher

‘Funny and heartfelt, full of humour and wisdom, I absolutely loved it’ Katie Fforde

‘Intelligent, edgy and laugh out loud funny – a romantic comedy to love’ Sunday Mirror

‘The perfect mix of comedy, whip smart dialogue and all the feels’ Fabulous

‘Mhairi gets the mix of laughs, romance and serious emotional depth just right in this page-turner that stands out from the crowd’ S Magazine

‘Hilarious, clever and beautifully written’ Daily Mail

‘Fiery, feminist, fit, filthy and very timely … astonishingly good’ Harriet Reuter Hapgood

‘A warm belly full of joy from start to finish!’ Holly Bourne

‘Mhairi’s best yet: nobody does modern love like her, hilarious, devastating and real’ Laura Kemp

Praise for Mhairi McFarlane:

‘An effortlessly brilliant read – will have you laughing when you shouldn’t and sobbing when you least expect it’ Giovanna Fletcher

‘Totally hilarious and wincingly real’ Jenny Colgan

‘Her best yet – write faster!’ Holly Bourne

‘No-one writes such wry, emotionally complex romantic fiction’ RED

‘The perfect balance of romcom and drama… the ultimate holiday read!’ GRAZIA

‘Warm, nuanced, compelling’ STYLIST

‘Intelligent and insightful’ HEAT

‘Sparky, smart, sore-stomach-laughing kind of read’ FABULOUS

‘Hilarious’ HELLO

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Sunday Times bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane was born in Scotland in 1976 and her unnecessarily confusing name is pronounced Vah-Ree.

After some efforts at journalism, she started writing novels and her first book, You Had Me At Hello, was an instant success. She’s now written eight books and she lives in Nottingham with a man and a cat.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins (1 Jan. 2019)
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Kristy Berry

Gorgeous Georgina

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2019

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Oh my word, I love this story.
From the word go it evokes memories of Sixth Form, puts you back there in the common room, back there in English Lit (I now really do want to read Wuthering Heights, nobody else has made me want to, this achievement should be added to Mhairi's author page tbh, it's honestly quite the attainment if you ask me). Mhairi has such a talent for putting the reader in the room, it honestly feels like you're sat just out of shot, whether that's in the pub or in a kitchen on a Sunday afternoon. She makes you feel like you could reach out and touch the characters.
I love Georgina, her self doubt, her need to fit in and the work it entails, and lots of other things that I can't write about as a) spoilers and b) too personal naval gazing for an Amazon review but suffice to say, I relate to her most out of any of the lead characters of Mhairi's novels (whilst knowing I could never live up to her brilliance and beauty - the irony of this is not lost) plus she speaks so much truth, so much wisdom. Oh, and I really wish I didn't have to develop a massive crush on the lead men every time but alas I do, and Lucas is no exception.
And again the friends and housemates and workmates and parents all feel like they could have a novel written about them too, so real and interesting they all are.
Honestly, how Mhairi does this every time I wish I knew. She's so bloody brilliant.
And I'll never be able to look at caramelised pecans the same way again.

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K Miles

Oh how we have missed you Ms McFarlane....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2019

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After what feels like foreevvvveeeerrrr (ok, I know it’s only just over two and a half years, but honestly, it’s felt like a lifetime!) we FINALLY have a new Mhairi McFarlane book to devour!!! During the long months and years since I read her last book, Who’s That Girl? back in April 2016, I’ve been desperately trying to find other similar books to read to fill the void, but honestly, it is my opinion that there is no one out there that can write rom com like Ms McFarlane. She is the queen of warm, witty banter, super likeable heroines and swoonsome heroes. So, I hear you cry, has she continued her brilliant run with another cracker in the shape of new book Don’t You Forget About Me? Well of course she has, and then some!

The story begins in Sheffield, 2007 with our girl Georgina in sixth form, and rapidly approaching the end of her schooldays. A surprise seat reshuffle during an English class, pairs her with the quiet and somewhat mysterious Lucas, a relative newcomer after recently moving schools from Dublin, and not someone Georgina has previously paid much attention to. All that changes as they get to know each other better against a backdrop of Wuthering Heights discussions, love notes and make out sessions in the local Botanical Gardens. The sixth form prom is meant to be the night they take their secret relationship to the next level, but a mixture of lies, miscommunications and hurt pride instead meant it was the night they parted forever. Or so we thought...

Forward to the present day, and Georgina is in a going-nowhere-fast job at an abomination of an Italian restaurant, has a flakey, self obsessed boyfriend, a patronising, disappointed family and a housemate from hell. Just when she thinks things can’t possibly get any worse, she’s unfairly sacked from the worst restaurant in town and then promptly finds her fella in bed with his PA! When you’re that low, the only way has to be up, and it appears Georgina’s luck could possibly be changing when she gets an unexpected job offer in a beautifully refurbished bar in town, working for the delightful new owner Delvin, who is everything you could want in the perfect boss. That is of course, until she meets his brother and partner in the business, in the familiar shape of tall, dark and handsome Lucas....

Oh this book was a joy! The perfect mixture of laughs, heartbreak and slow burn romance. As always with Mhairi’s female leads, I loved Georgina’s character from the off. I recognised the smart, likeable girl who desperately wanted to get the approval of the ‘cool kids’ in her class, and in doing so, suppressed her own potential in a bid to fit in and be accepted -

“You play down your intelligence to enhance your standing with your peers. There’s a big wide world outside these walls, Georgina Horspool, and exam grades will get you further than their laughter. Pretty faces grow old too, you know.”

Sixth form Lucas too, was adorable from his first introduction. His “I love your laugh. X” note made me pull a silly grin as I thought back to how thrilled I would have been at that age to get that note from a boy I was falling for. I read the whole of the prologue wanting to shout at the screen “Don’t hide him away Georgina!! He’s a good ‘un! Be proud to be with him!” But of course, we all know that some things - not making yourself a target, fitting in with everyone else, doing nothing that could possibly be mocked or ridiculed by classmates - seem so vitally important whilst still a pupil, that you’ll do whatever is necessary, however misguided, to avoid the sniggering and mickey taking. I’m sure we’ve all known a version of Richard Hardy. The supposed cool kid, with an underlying nastiness to many of his ‘witty’ quips. His approval would have felt so necessary if for no other reason than to avoid being the butt of his joke. For the self doubters of the world, acceptance by the ‘in crowd’ is sometimes the validation you feel you need to get by at school. And for all her intellect and natural wit, Georgina certainly falls into that category of not quite believing herself good enough.

When we pick up again with 30 year old Georgina, that self doubt is still bubbling under her surface. ‘Why am I still doing this rubbish job? Am I too old to be still pull off this look? Am I too boring in my relationship? All these negative questions are not helped, her close friends aside, by the people around her, who could hardly be accused of being uplifting or supportive! This little gem of wisdom from Tony, the terrible chef at That’s Amore!, was a typically cutting example -

“Be careful with that heavy make-up as a blonde. One minute you’re punk like Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner, the next you’re Julie Goodyear.”

That said, so much of the That’s Amore! description was hilarious! I could totally picture this hellhole of a restaurant with its disgusting kitchen and equally grubby chef! I cringed along with Georgina at the simpering lengths she had to go to in order to try to balance keeping both kitchen and customer happy -

“It turns out my role is less a waitress, more an apologist for gastronomic terrorism. I’m a mule, shuttling the criminal goods from kitchen to table and acting innocent when questioned.”

“They told me that a free lunch was a perk of my meagre wage, and I soon discovered that’s an up-side like getting a ride on an inflatable slide if your plane crashes”

I swear I could totally picture the congealed muck on the plates she was forced to serve up! As always with a McFarlane book, even the smallest character is perfectly drawn. Tony, fag hanging out of his mouth and wispy mullet sticking out of his chef’s hat, is such a clear image for me, I’m sure I could pick him out of a police line up. It’s always one of the joys in reading this authors work, the total realism of all her characters.

I found the family dynamic particularly rang true. The dysfunctional family unit she grew up in, with unhappy parents constantly fighting and drawing Georgina and her sister into taking sides, I’m sure feels familiar to many of us who grew up with parents at war with each other -

“It was mine and my sister’s responsibility to act as buffer zones and brake pads, and simply to be someone living in their house that they liked”

I found her description of Saturdays out with her Dad and the relationship they had, particularly touching and at times, quite heartbreaking. Now I seem to be painting this book as quite sad and downbeat, but trust me, it’s totally not! However, I think all the best comedy has light and shade, it gives way more depth and becomes a far superior book because of it. But at its heart, this book is a brilliant rom com, and there is plenty of comedy and romance to keep every McFarlane fan happy.

I LOVED Georgina’s friends! What a fab bunch they all were. I was particularly fond of her loveable young workmate Kitty. Her naive innocence made me smile on so many occasions. Her sheer horror at the suggestion she may like to keep a diary in the future was priceless! -

“Oh my God, no one does that, what am I, some sort of Victorian person!’ Kitty says. ‘Yeah, like, I wrote my diary in my big death nightie and, like, ate mutton pie and that. Wrote it with one of those pens that are feathers.’
‘What the hell is a big death nightie?!’ I say, putting aside the fact Kitty called me ancient.
‘Those nighties that ghosts wear and they put old people in. You know. Like in a Muppet’s Christmas Carol.’
‘Hahahhaa. The Muppets’ Christmas Carol. RIP Charles Dickens.’ Devlin says.
‘I know who Charles Dickens is!’
‘Do you? My bad,’ Devlin says.
‘He’s the bear, he tells the story.’
Devlin and I look at each other and hoot and Kitty says, ‘Oh piss off!”

Special mentions must also go to the fabulous Nana Hogg, the gorgeously warm Dev, kind and lovely Mark, narcissist Robin and, although I loathed him, the perfectly drawn, odious little toad Geoffrey. His put downs and sly digs made me furious on Georgina’s behalf, but it’s the mark of brilliant writing that his words can cause such a reaction in the reader -

“Oh for goodness’ sake, your indispensability to some grotty boozer! Yes, I am sure they’ll be scouring Yorkshire trying to find another person with opposable thumbs, capable of placing a glass on a counter top and counting coins. It’ll be like that hunt for a pop star programme. Soda Pop Idol hahaha.”

But back to Lucas *sigh* The older Lucas we met in the book, came across as a darker, moodier version to the affectionate teen we were originally introduced to, but of course, that was for several very good reasons. I found the romance in this book a slightly slower burn than in the authors previous work, but no less glorious because of that. I’d like to assure fans of You Had Me At Hello and It’s Not Me It’s You, that the ‘I wondered if’ speech in this book is right up there with Ben’s declaration in chapter 69 and Adam’s love letter respectively

There were heartbreaking parts to this story as well as the heartwarming. When discussions were finally had about the disastrous prom night, I could have cried I was so sad for all the hurt and pain that was caused, but I’m glad that Georgina finally had clarity about what happened and just who should have carried the blame for that night. As with most situations, talking and being honest is the only way answers can be found, and closure can be achieved.

You may think when reading the books blurb that Don’t You Forget About Me is just a classic second chance romance, but actually for me, it’s much more than that. It’s really a tale about learning to be kinder to yourself. Of not putting yourself down, and not allowing others to do that to you either. It’s a reminder that secrets and lies can fester and eat away at you if you let them and that being honest with yourself and others can prevent so much hurt and confusion. So maybe this new year, we should all try to give ourselves a break. To acknowledge that we are good enough and we are all trying to do our best, and really, that should be good enough, for ourselves and for all those people who claim to care about us.

In Don’t You Forget About Me, Mhairi McFarlane has written another cracker of a story. It’s warm and witty, heartbreaking and uplifting and I loved every word of it. I just have one final request for Ms McFarlane - please, please, PLEASE, don’t leave it so long for the next book!!!

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Carol

Another wonderful Mhairi McFarlane read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2019

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I am a big fan of Mhairi McFarlane’s books. I like her sense of humour and her ability, to sum up a situation in a single phrase. Don’t You Forget About Me was a fabulous read. As you’d expect if you’ve read Mhairi’s other books, there was a degree of humour, but more than that this book drew me in (literally I stayed up until 2am to finish it!), it explored different relationships at different levels; it made me laugh, but it also made me cry. The ending was gorgeous and delivered all and more than I had hoped for. The main characters were brilliant. Georgina was wonderfully portrayed, and I loved Lucas, his dog and his brother, actually I could go on – they are a fabulous bunch of characters whose world you’re happy to inhabit for the duration of the book! It was another wonderful Mhairi McFarlane read.

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A. Linton

Promised so much but fails to deliver

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2019

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The kindle sample for this book is really quite good and ends on somewhat of a cliff hanger. Pretty popular Georgina and geeky Lucas have a secret thing going when they are at school, but in the present time they have been estranged for years and I really wanted to find out what happened. Unfortunately the chapters set in the present are nowhere near as interesting - Lucas and Georgina meet again but pretend not to know each other and there is really very little interaction between them - there are a lot of scenes between Georgina and her trio of 'zany' friends who are all pretty much one-dimensional and forgettable - so much so that I've already forgotten their names. There is probably a good reason for this - if the two starcrossed lovers at the centre of the story had even one decent conversation about what happened in the past they would be able to clear up all the misunderstandings, but this is the sort of book where everything has to happen before a group of cheering friends. Author seems to have gotten quite a lot of inspiration from 'Friends' and 'Sex in the City'. Wasn't a bit surprised when I checked up on her and found out she was quite a bit older than the millennial readership she is aiming at. This reminds me strongly of many books I read about 20 years ago. The humour is a bit over the top and didn't really work for me. It also didn't help that I believed for much of the book that Georgina had simply ditched Lucas for a more popular boy (more of this in comments) which made it impossible to root for her to get back with him.
Wouldn't rush to read her other books unless I found one free on KU.

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