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What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. 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.

When Laurie is dumped by her partner of 18 years, she’s blindsided. Not only does she feel humiliated, they still have to work together. So when she gets stuck in the lift with handsome colleague Jamie, they hatch a plan to stage the perfect romance. Revenge will be sweet.... But this fauxmance is about to get complicated. You can’t break your heart in a fake relationship - can you?

You always remember your first love. Don't you? It began with four words. "I love your laugh." But that was 12 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.

When Joe and Roisin join their group of friends for a weekend away, it’s a triple celebration – a birthday, an engagement and the launch of Joe’s new crime drama. For Roisin, it’s a chance to connect with old friends. But for Joe, it’s a distraction as his writing career soars. As the weekend unfolds Roisin’s sense of foreboding buildings. And when she sees secrets she shared with Joe play out on the TV screen, she knows that between us means nothing at all. Searching for clues to the truth, about her life and the man she thought she loved, Roisin finds the most unexpected twist of them all.

Eve, Justin, Susie and Ed have been friends since they were 18. Now in their 30s, the four are still as close as ever, Thursday pub quiz night is still sacred and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe Eve should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed sometimes thinks about it, too. Then one night, in an instant, all their lives change forever. And, as Eve learns she didn’t know her friends as well as she thought, she also discovers she isn’t the only person keeping secrets.

When there’s a ring on her doorbell on Christmas Day, there’s only one person Edie Thompson wants it to be. The person who’s still in her heart. The person who just might be The One. She and Elliot Owen called it quits once before – but aren’t they too good together not to try? And here he is – offering her everything she dreamed of. But dating Elliot, an actor, is anything but plain sailing. Being an ocean apart and followed by the press is one thing, but when Edie’s friends and Elliot’s family are drawn in, things get messy.

Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. Getting married. Her boyfriend’s family. Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself. And he's also hiding secrets of his own. Can these two take a crazy risk, face the past and finally find a reason to stay?

An achingly funny story about how to be your own hero when life pulls the rug out from under your feet. From the author of the bestselling You Had me at Hello. Delia Moss isn't quite sure where she went wrong. When she proposed and discovered her boyfriend was sleeping with someone else - she thought it was her fault. When she realised life would never be the same again - she thought it was her fault.

An achingly funny story from the author of the best-selling You Had Me at Hello. 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 school days. Shamed online and ostracised by everyone she knows, Edie's forced to take an extended sabbatical - ghostwriting an autobiography for hot new acting talent, Elliot Owen. Easy, right? Wrong.

The new novel from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Hello. Anna Alessi - history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth - seeks nice man for intelligent conversation and Mills & Boon moments. Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn't be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream.

Bel’s joined the Manchester office of a big national paper from her award-winning podcast. There’s only three of them – Bel, her relentlessly ambitious colleague Aaron, and the new intern. And when the intern turns out to be a thirty-something man called Connor, she gets off on totally the wrong foot. She’s patronising, he’s hostile. It’s a terrible start. Then Bel gets a sniff at a really big story, Connor gets caught in the crossfire, and before they know it, they have to convince people they’re a couple – and a couple in love at that.

Am 10. Jahrestag macht Delia ihrem Freund Paul einen Heiratsantrag. Als moderne Frau nimmt man die Dinge schließlich selbst in die Hand. Leider reagiert Paul eher verhalten als begeistert. Er sagt zwar Ja, braucht dann aber erstmal ein Bier. Während er an der Bar die Bestellung abgibt, erhält Delia eine SMS: "Sie hat mir einen Antrag gemacht. Was soll ich nur tun? Können wir uns morgen sehen?" Offensichtlich hat sich Paul nach zehn Jahren Beziehung eine Jüngere gesucht, während Delia dachte, sie wären nun bereit, den nächsten Schritt zu gehen. Diesen geht sie dann kurzentschlossen allein - nämlich raus aus dem gemeinsamen Haus.

Zwei gebrochene Versprechen, zwei Mitbewohner wie Hund und Katz und ein verrückter Plan. Obwohl Harriet Hatley die begehrteste Hochzeitsfotografin in Leeds ist, glaubt sie nicht an die Ehe und findet Romantik nur schwer erträglich. Als ihr langjähriger Freund ihr einen Heiratsantrag macht, gerät Harriet in Panik. Kurz darauf ist sie nicht nur Single, sondern braucht auch dringend eine neue Wohnung. Nur deshalb zieht sie bei Cal ein, ohne ihn vorher wenigstens einmal getroffen zu haben – mit einer unangenehmen Überraschung.

Edie fällt aus allen Wolken, als ihr Kollege Jack sie zu seiner Hochzeit einlädt. Denn bis vor kurzem hat Jack noch mit ihr geflirtet. Aber absagen ist nicht drin, und so heißt es: Augen zu und durch. Als Edie während der Feier kurz in den Park flieht, steht plötzlich Jack vor ihr - und küsst sie. Doch die Braut überrascht die beiden, und innerhalb kürzester Zeit ist Edie die am meisten gehasste Frau auf der Hochzeit.

Anna Alessi ist Historikerin, liebt ihren Job und hat sich mit ihren ewig unordentlichen Haaren und ihrem manchmal vorlauten Mundwerk abgefunden. Ein Mann für die romantischen Momente des Lebens wäre schon nett - aber ihr geht's gut, viel besser als sie jemals gehofft hätte. Denn als Jugendliche war sie dick und eigenbrötlerisch, ein beliebtes Zielobjekt für organisiertes Mobbing. Ausgerechnet ihr heimlicher Schwarm James Fraser trieb dies gekonnt auf die Spitze und stellte sie in seinem ärgsten Coup vor der gesamten Schule bloß.

Ben und Rachel. Rachel und Ben. Zu Unizeiten waren sie unzertrennlich. Die Welt hätte ihnen nichts anhaben können. Beste Kumpels waren sie. Doch eine Nacht vorm Abschlussball ist etwas geschehen. Seitdem sind zehn Jahre vergangen und die beiden haben sich nie mehr gesehen. Bis jetzt. Allerdings ist Ben heute verheiratet, und Rachel hat sich gerade von ihrem Verlobten getrennt.

Wenn in Georginas Leben etwas schiefgeht, dann wenigstens gründlich: Erst verliert sie ihren Job als Kellnerin, dann erwischt sie ihren Freund Robin im Bett mit einer anderen. Weil Tränen ihr noch nie geholfen haben, setzt Georgina Robin kurzerhand vor die Tür und sucht sich einen neuen Job. Leider ist ihr zukünftiger Boss kein Unbekannter: Lukas war zu Schulzeiten ihre große Liebe, bis zu jener schrecklichen Party-Nacht, ausgerechnet in der Bar, in der sie nun arbeiten soll... Als wäre das noch immer nicht genug, macht Robin plötzlich als Stand-up-Comedian Furore - mit Szenen aus Georginas alten Tagebüchern!

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.

Delia Moss isn’t quite sure where she went wrong. When she proposed and discovered her boyfriend was sleeping with someone else – she thought it was her fault. When she realised life would never be the same again – she thought it was her fault. And when he wanted her back like nothing had changed – Delia started to wonder if perhaps she was not to blame… From Newcastle to London and back again, with dodgy jobs, eccentric bosses and annoyingly handsome journalists thrown in, Delia must find out where her old self went – and if she can ever get her back.

Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn’t be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream. However, things weren’t always this way, and her years spent as the ‘Italian Galleon’ of an East London comprehensive are ones she’d rather forget. So when James Fraser – the architect of Anna’s final humiliation at school – walks back into her life, her world is turned upside down. But James seems a changed man. Polite. Mature. Funny, even. People can change, right? So why does Anna feel like she’s a fool to trust him?