Mad about You: The biggest romcom of 2022: heart-warming, laugh-out loud funny and wonderfully romantic

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When they find out that they are exactly strangers to each other things get a little bit awkward and Harriet overhears Cal making some rather disparaging remarks about her.

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Hattie is my kind of heroine I want to invite my house to have long chats sharing bottles of Chardonnay and late night homemade cookies ( ha ha homemade means husband made, nobody dare to consider me as a cook) , giving long hugs, telling she’s amazing, she’s strong, she’s bold enough to confront with the bullies, giving them the lesson they have to learn! When they are away for a weekend with Jon's family and celebrating the anniversary of his parents, Jon surprises her by proposing in front of his family. i>Sunday Times bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane was born in Scotland in 1976 and her unnecessarily confusing name is pronounced Vah-Ree. Harriet is faced with a dilemma when she discovers that Scott is getting married to a sweet girl named Mary Ann. The chapter endings at times are really odd, like it would stop right in the middle of a scene and the next chapter begins in continuation with the next line of the very scene.The story doesn’t take Harriet’s exes as lightly and much of the narrative delves into the repercussions of having been in an emotionally abusive relationship. I do enjoy the way the author manages to some people up in just a few words and yet you really see them. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself.

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The story spends too much time on Harriett’s shitty exes and very little time on developing her character. Having loved her last two releases, If I Never Met You and Last Night, I was fully prepared to fall for Mad About You. I felt like cheering at the end of this one, even though the "romance element" was not central to the plot for a change. Born in Scotland in 1972, Mhairi, whose name is pronounced as Vah-Ree, turned to writing fiction after a brief stint in journalism. But looking at the bookshelves back then, in the Noughties, McFarlane felt the genre was “very kind of monied, in an inaccessible way”.The book's female protagonist is an in-demand wedding photographer who loathes romance and does not want to get married (loved that! so go into this expecting it to be a womens fiction novel with a main plot that is pretty heavy, but you can also be looking forward to the brief interactions between cal and harriet that totally steal the show. There is an awful lot of prejudice out there [about romantic fiction but] I think you can kind of have it all. This is my second book by this author and I remember the first one being a normal trope but being very well written and making it different and unusual.

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That would have added realism to their living situation but we always seemed to get scenes where they are either confronting their exes or dealing with some other drama. I think your liking of this book will be highly dependent on the extent to which you connect and empathise with Harriet's character. These healthy and supportive relationships stand in sharp contrast to some of the other toxic relationships Harriet and Sam have experienced.This could've been a depressing read, fraught with angst and an overdose of emotional turmoil, and yet it was so well balanced to avoid this but also Harriet, for all her self-proclaimed bad luck, isn't mopey.