Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane
Published by William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication date: January 1, 2019
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit
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Georgina is not having a great day. She’s been fired from another job and she walked in on her boyfriend having ice cream covered sex with his personal assistant. Now she’s unemployed and will never be able to look at a bowl of ice cream again without gagging. These are just two of the harsh realities facing Georgie when Don’t You Forget About Me begins.
The trajectory of Georgie’s adult life has been more down than up, but she’s not ready to give up. She’s fired from her waitressing job for telling a customer the truth about the restaurant’s food and utilizes the same brutal honesty and vicious wit on her cheating boyfriend ex-boyfriend. When a temp job appears she jumps on it, needing the income to make rent and to continue to fund her aspirations of becoming a writer. Aspirations that, at 30, are starting to look more like fantasies.
The temp job turns permanent and Georgie becomes the new bartender at an upscale London pub owned by two Irish brothers. One of whom, to her dismay, was her first love in high school. When Lucas doesn’t recognize her, she’s left with mixed feelings of relief and dismay that she wasn’t as important to him as he was to her. But she loves the job and is good at it, giving her a break from her perfidious and insidious ex-boyfriend who won’t go away, her perpetually disgruntled roommate, and judge-y ‘perfect’ older sister who seems to enjoy her every misstep.
Romance is a new genre for me, but Don’t You Forget About Me lands in the sweet spot of the kind of reading I love. The British do self-deprecating, snarky humor like no one else, often using it as a way to mask some of life’s harder emotions. Like being nowhere near to reaching any of your goals when you’re 30. But while Georgie, with her insecurities and her fab faux fur pink coat, may be slow to find her footing in life she’s endearing, tough, and refuses to give up. She and the pack of ancillary characters who accompany her throughout Don’t You Forget About Me are a great antidote for grey days. Even better—Mhairi McFarlane is an established romance author so her entire backlist is just waiting for me to read it.
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