Sometimes the man of your dreams is standing right in front of you… only ten years in the past. Fancy Meeting You Here is an utterly charming and unconventional love story about trying to rewrite history.
Evie Berry is a thirty-year-old wannabe screenwriter who spends her days managing a London cinema bar and making the podcast Pasta La Vista with her best friend Ben. She’s also obsessed with Hugo Hearst. Have you heard of him? Of course you have. He’s only one of the most influential and not to mention swoon-worthy bestselling writers of his generation.
When Evie’s not hooking up with her on-again, off-again booty call ‘Ever-Ready Freddy’ (and sometimes even when she is), she fantasises about what might have been if she’d met Hugo years ago, when he was just a struggling writer.
After Evie interviews a psychic to the stars on her podcast, her life is catapulted ten years into the past. But the grass isn’t quite as green as she remembers…
Fancy Meeting You Here is a hilarious and heart-warming new book from bestselling writing duo Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus. Their previous novels The Book Ninja and While You Were Reading were global hits that were published in more than ten territories. Now they’re back with Fancy Meeting You Here, a delightful romantic comedy with a feminist twist.
The novel follows struggling writer Evie Berry who is hilariously zapped back to her twenties – à la Thirteen Going on Thirty – for a second chance at true love with none other than her celebrity crush, Hugo Hearst. Most of us wish we could be twenty again. Throw in a whirlwind romance with a bestselling author/movie star and a second shot at a failed writing career and surely, you’ve got the perfect recipe for happiness, right? Evie thinks so too. Yet as the age old saying goes: be careful what you wish for.
This novel reads like a love letter to romantic comedies. It pays homage to the classic romcoms we know and love: Love Actually, When Harry Meets Sally, Sliding Doors and Notting Hill. Yet, as much as this book celebrates the gushy cliches and big dramatic gestures of romantic comedies, this smart, savvy read also holds a lens up to this genre and shows the cracks hiding beneath the façade.
Funny, clever and utterly binge-worthy, Fancy Meeting You Here is yet another fantastic page-turner from the powerhouse literary duo. If you’re looking for a blissful piece of escapism with plenty of laughs, this is it.
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