It’s Not Me, It’s You

De: Mhairi McFarlane

Narrado por: Julia Barrie

An achingly funny story about how to be your own hero when life pulls the rug out from under your feet…

‘This is modern and honest romantic fiction at its most accomplished’ HEAT

‘McFarlane’s writing will make you laugh out loud’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘Brilliantly funny stuff’ FABULOUS

‘A delicious feast of comic romance . . . smart and funny’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

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Delia Moss isn’t quite sure where she went wrong.

When she proposed and discovered her boyfriend was sleeping with someone else – she thought it was her fault.

When she realised life would never be the same again – she thought it was her fault.

And when he wanted her back like nothing had changed – Delia started to wonder if perhaps she was not to blame…

From Newcastle to London and back again, with dodgy jobs, eccentric bosses and annoyingly handsome journalists thrown in, Delia must find out where her old self went – and if she can ever get her back.

©2014 Mhairi McFarlane (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

Another fun romantic romp

I have read most of MM’s wand this one is immensely entertaining. I love Delia as a character and as always the clever use of the English language! I recommend.

Pales in Comparison

Upfront: big fan of the author.
This book: not the author's best by far. It follows awkward plotting that abandons some of the lead character's more engaging traits 2/3 of the way through. It left me wondering why the author did not persue the strands of the lead's personality that made her seem unique earlier in the book. In all, this book lacks the depth of character that makes many of her books stand out from the British rom com crowd. I also found the narrator annoying. Her voicing throughout lacked emotion. In particular, it made the lead sound like an early twenty something rather than a more mature thirty something. Perhaps my overall lack of enthusiasm for this book reflects how much the author has grown and improved! This appears to have been the second book she published.

Skip this one.

Usually as a story progresses, you'd expect the character development to also. McFarlane usually writes characters with relatively good sense. In this book, the main character was literally regressing as a human being.
I literally couldn't stand her at some point. like she was behaving so STUPIDLY it was hard to believe she was 33 years old and intentionally restarting her life in a big city.
the book was nearly unbearable to finish. Big miss by this author because I usually love her work.