Don’t You Forget About Me

Don’t You Forget About Me
Mhairi McFarlane

You always remember your first love. Don’t you…?’I loved it! So funny and warm. A delicious read’ Marian KeyesIt 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…

Copyright (#ua195024c-7219-5fbf-bc1b-3168b09301d1)

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Source ISBN: 9780008169336

Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008169329

Version: 2018-10-30

Dedication (#ua195024c-7219-5fbf-bc1b-3168b09301d1)

For my niece, Sylvie

A small superhero

Epigraph (#ua195024c-7219-5fbf-bc1b-3168b09301d1)

Love’s strange so real in the dark

Think of the tender things that we were working on

Simple Minds

Contents

Cover (#u169d35d6-0865-58e0-9fb4-10ff4d57dd19)

Title Page (#u7e2ee361-a721-5f5f-bebf-19024044b571)

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Then (#ue0e0fb00-5c8b-5693-a217-ea71460b5ecf)

Chapter 1: Now (#ue3516816-9811-53da-8cf4-2946cd0417b4)

Chapter 2 (#u098b663f-9089-52a4-ad96-ed4b1cc006f3)

Chapter 3 (#uc1dfcb10-dc6f-5e57-9fb5-15fccf1f19ef)

Chapter 4 (#u27af5a83-935d-5085-90a9-3934939a568b)

Chapter 5 (#u8e59e9df-76bb-539c-a0ce-e09cec62e0f4)

Chapter 6 (#uea9bb006-94c7-5738-91f2-dc43c6a4a53e)

Chapter 7 (#u3b120f7b-495b-57d3-bfa5-69b4dc2f86c2)

Chapter 8 (#ucae21af2-4a96-534e-925d-ab80168fabcf)

Chapter 9 (#uef55b872-d0bd-5b25-8800-c3dff5fb7deb)

Chapter 10 (#u2f765317-bbdc-541d-bc2c-7eb4d29bd85f)

Chapter 11 (#ubb8b2fce-39f6-5b7a-a8ad-7c1a0965c25a)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)