Review: Don't You Forget About Me

Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane
Genre: Romance/Romantic Comedy
Length: 368 pages
Publication Date: 1 January 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  4.5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
 
You always remember your first love. Don’t you…?
 
It began with four words.
 
‘I love your laugh. x’
 
But that was twelve years ago. It really began the day Georgina was fired from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield (© Tripadvisor) and found The Worst Boyfriend in the World (© Georgina’s best friends) in bed with someone else.
 
So when her new boss, Lucas McCarthy, turns out to be the boy who wrote those words to her all that time ago, it feels like the start of something.
 
The only problem?
He doesn’t seem to remember Georgina – at all…

My Review:

The first chapter is Georgina, aged 15, trying to comprehend Wuthering Heights and navigate her feelings for the quiet and unpopular Lucas McCarthy. Fast-forward to modern day and Georgina (and her life) could be described as a 'hot mess' - bad job, worse boyfriend, and then neither! It took me a few chapters to get into the story but once I was hooked, I was truly reeled in, and finished the rest of the book in a day. The story was heart-breaking, funny, sentimental and left me in tears.  
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review.