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If I Never Met You
Mhairi McFarlane
If faking love is this easy… how do you know when it’s real? The brand new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane 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?
IF I NEVER MET YOU
Mhairi McFarlane
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First published in the UK by HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copyright © Mhairi McFarlane 2020
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Cover illustration © Abbey Lossing / Handsome Frank
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008169480
Ebook Edition © January 2020 ISBN: 9780008169473
Version: 2019-11-04
Dedication (#ue9466f73-b481-5adf-8f26-c4644539ec16)
For my sister, Laura
the human Lisa Simpson
Contents
Cover (#uaaa4a5b8-d545-5bc6-941f-29426932a92b)
Title Page (#ubbf3ec37-c622-5f34-8f18-64fa55485f16)
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1 (#u0f468577-ee19-59f0-baed-e93a1d3067d7)
Chapter 2 (#u62029394-cdad-57de-b194-f8749b3def52)
Chapter 3 (#ud88c071a-d36b-5058-9e54-04e74360fe5e)
Chapter 4 (#ua2c3b36a-b10b-56ab-a302-0b9299f4b0b0)
Chapter 5 (#uf55fe2b9-6f9a-54bf-a5b7-e9b7ed9310f0)
Chapter 6 (#u295fe7bf-c327-5849-9c34-aec06a08eaf3)
Chapter 7 (#u2a5bf312-2fa0-5e25-9ab1-462cf863b60f)
Chapter 8 (#u9614830c-664c-5948-9b3d-01117525b6e4)
Chapter 9 (#u1e0b71dc-5eab-574f-bf85-6ed823789f68)
Chapter 10 (#u07fff60b-2104-580a-b1d5-146796985d73)
Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements
A Q&A with Mhairi McFarlane
Keep Reading …
About the Author
Also by Mhairi McFarlane
About the Publisher
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Dan
What time you think you’ll be back tonight? Roughly?
Laurie
Dunno. SOON I HOPE.
Dan
You hope?
Laurie
Everyone has raspberries in Proseccos
Dan
I thought you liked Prosecco. And raspberries
Laurie
I do! I’ve got one.
But denotes a certain type of Girls Night Out that’s not very me. They’re calling them ‘cheeky bubbles’
Dan
Your problem is other people like it too? Can’t imagine my criticism of a night out being ‘people ordered the same drink’
Laurie
… Except when you said you hate stag dos that ‘start with getting ten pints of wife beater in at 7am in Gatwick Spoons’.
Dan
You can’t take a moment off being a lawyer, can you?
Laurie
HAH. You misspelt ‘you got me bang to rights, Loz’
