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You Had Me At Hello
Mhairi McFarlane
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling comedy from bestseller, Mhairi McFarlane.‘Think of the great duos of history. We're just like them.’‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?’‘I think you’ve missed the point, Rachel.’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.Hilarious, heartbreaking and everything in between, you’ll be hooked from their first ‘hello’.
For Jenny
Who I Found At University
Table of Contents
Title Page (#u20a0d249-527c-5e4b-b45e-e07ce3262767)
Dedication (#ua2dcec9d-2261-5bb7-8ef9-1ffe9c000409)
Prologue (#u7d3eb11f-f9a7-5d71-89ad-8f85202b5c52)
Chapter 1 (#u9f507e58-5a49-5c0d-8361-5a4fb0bcc36c)
Chapter 2 (#ua5fa56d3-1a09-5371-9bf3-7af723cbf4e9)
Chapter 3 (#u9b8565cc-dee3-5230-974e-5e9adbe6fdf6)
Chapter 4 (#u6d867b41-c8f5-5412-b251-49fddcea86de)
Chapter 5 (#ufb4925c8-45aa-51d2-9f86-cb37f8754809)
Chapter 6 (#u42765a93-140f-50d6-96cf-0fe84f8b5a4f)
Chapter 7 (#u8df39117-816d-503a-a36d-f8d7511ed68d)
Chapter 8 (#uffdf1e22-7ba0-5160-a969-7fa5e7708df8)
Chapter 9 (#ufe17892b-0b9c-532b-aa55-c98daa1f5105)
Chapter 10 (#ufac16dae-d171-5914-bc6c-a01cb3d91948)
Chapter 11 (#u3de28969-f1bd-5326-ab2d-fe3b8efc4429)
Chapter 12 (#u269b6dca-6f47-5778-84bb-014fa5fc2812)
Chapter 13 (#u85bf2f71-99c8-524e-b84d-df6f3fd3e0e6)
Chapter 14 (#u569a5510-087f-5895-b3e1-f8a1638facb2)
Chapter 15 (#u4186073d-b485-5bea-851b-469af35a2335)
Chapter 16 (#u33f3e1d5-e7f1-564f-af7b-c61f9631c388)
Chapter 17 (#u9a956839-803d-510c-ada0-0465f7a2d154)
Chapter 18 (#u6790db96-74f1-54a5-9d83-b8f8ab38b993)
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)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 58 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 59 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 60 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 61 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 62 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 63 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 64 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 65 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 66 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 67 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 68 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 69 (#litres_trial_promo)
So that’s it. Rachel and Ben’s story has been told. (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE
‘Oh bloody hell, of all the luck …’
‘What?’ I asked.
I batted a particularly plucky and irrepressible wasp away from my Coke can. Ben was shielding his face with his hand in that way which only renders you more conspicuous.
‘Professor McDonald. You know, Egg McMuffin Head. I owed him an essay on Keats a week ago. Has he seen me?’
I looked over. Across the afternoon-sun-dappled lawn, the professor had stopped in his tracks and was doing the full pointing-finger Lord Kitchener impression, even down to mouthing the word ‘YOU’.
‘Er. Yes.’
Ben peered through a gap in his fingers at me.
‘Maybe yes or hell yes?’
‘Like a tweedy, portly, bald Scottish Scud missile has your exact coordinates and is ripping across the grass to take you out, yes.’
‘Right, OK, think, think …’ Ben muttered, looking up into the leaves of the tree we were sitting beneath.
‘Are you going to try to climb it? Because Professor McDonald looks the type to wait for the fire crews at dusk.’
Ben’s eyes cast around at the detritus of lunch, and our bags on the ground, as if they contained an answer. I didn’t think an esteemed academic getting a face full of Karrimor rucksack was likely to help. His gaze came to rest on my right hand.
‘Can I borrow your ring?’
‘Sure. It’s not magical though.’ I twisted it off and handed it over.
‘Stand up?’
‘Eh?’
‘Stand. Up.’
