Ok this is a book you just need to read. Yes, need.

1990’s: Holly and Alex are basically BFF’s – they do everything together, know everything about each other and, of course, are madly in love with each other but neither of them are prepared to admit it.

2010’s: Holly is a PA, in a relationship with her boss and sings songs from musicals when she runs. (Legend.) Alex is a teacher, doesn’t quite get the dating game and still lives at home. But, when Alex and Holly end up walking back into each other’s lives, they are given the chance to start again. It’s been years since they’ve spoken…can they rekindle their friendship and tell each other the things they were once too scared to?

Laura and Jimmy have pretty much perfected writing a book together. I am often hesitant when it comes to reading a book written by two authors, it just doesn’t often feel ‘natural’ but this book felt perfect. In my head I had the idea that Jimmy had written Alex’s chapters and Laura, Holly’s. I don’t know whether I read this in an interview with them somewhere or whether I completely made it up but whatevs, I mean, it totally worked in my head.

The book was split into dual narration with chapters from Holly’s point of view and then others from Alex’s which lent itself nicely to being able to see things from both perspectives. I have to say, this technique did leave me reeling with frustration, I was shouting at the book ‘JUST TELL EACH OTHER ALREADY’ but in a good way…I think. I certainly enjoyed being able to witness things from a male and female point of view – it was also nice to see that men do actually have some kind of feelings.

The pacing of this novel was perfect throughout; it invited me to keep turning page after page to see what would happen next, even though I already knew how it would end. I think that’s the thing with this book. As soon as you start reading it you know where the characters will end up – it’s a given in a book of this genre that the ending is predictable but it’s the journey that the characters take to their ending – that is the interesting part. And by golly did these characters go on an interesting journey! The addition of a few other characters, namely Kev and Richard, made for compelling reading and it was characters like this, who bought humour to the plot, who kept the story moving nicely.

I loved the writing style of this book. It didn’t feel as though two people had written it, the words flowed as though they had come from the same pen which was impressive. The humour, as mentioned so many times before, was spot on and really well crafted, as were the situations the characters find themselves in too.

My only tiny gripe was the ending. It was too rushed; too quickly resolved. Perhaps a slightly more detailed ending with fewer clichés would have worked but, do you know what, I don’t really care about that because I flippin’ loved this book and not even a rushed ending can put me off.

I cannot wait to read something else from this duo. They are ones to watch out for and I can tell you now that this is going to be one of the biggest debuts of the year. I can sense it!

A fabulously witty romantic comedy that will have you smiling and laughing in equal measure.