To no-ones surprise, I loved this. Pitch perfect contemporary fiction with a stomach-swooping love story. The characters are delicious and real and the storyline is engrossing, entertaining and multi-faceted.

I love Bel and would like to be her friend please. Connor is a (not so) stoic dream and Shilpa is someone I’d love to bump into in the women’s loos and chat to for an hour, becoming immediate best friends. 

Imo reading a Mhairi book is akin to sinking into a warm bath: it’s a safe and comfortable place to be. Don’t mistake that metaphor for a book that never touches on the uncomfortable & real though. Mhairi really knows how to weave a story of hope & love with very real observations of the often scary & misogynistic world we live in. 

As always, I couldn’t stop reading but I’m bereft it’s over and am immediately looking for the next instalment of McFarlane cleverness & joy!