Book info

• Title If I Never Met You
• Author Mhairi McFarlane
• Year 2020
• Genre Romance

Laurie and Jamie have the perfect office romance. (They set the rules via email) Everyone can see they’re head over heels. (They staged the photos) This must be true love. (They’re faking it) When Laurie is dumped by her partner of eighteen 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?

Thoughts

I really loved this book. It was so detailed, but never dull. Great characters and dialogue and you really got swept up and carried away with the plot. There’s quite a lot of set up with Laurie, quite a lot of hearbreak, before the real story and rom-com fun begins, but once it does, it’s just brilliant. I don’t want to spoil it by saying too much more, but the trope of ‘fake-romance-becomes-true-love’ is done really well here. Recommended.

Rating: 5 / 5