»Ein Roman mit Witz, Wärme und ganz viel Herz.« Beth O’Leary

‘Heartwarming and hilarious’ Sarah Morgan

‘A fun and fabulous read from the queen of the rom-com’ Woman & Home

‘A laugh-out-loud book…the perfect summer escape’ Lindsey Kelk

You never forget the one that got away, do you?

Nell Mason is extremely happy with her life – or at least, that’s what she tells herself. She’s lucky to have a high-powered job as a lawyer, even if it does come with an eccentric set of billionaire divorce clients. And she’s absolutely fine living with her sweet, if slightly dull, boyfriend Gus in their London flat where they have very sensible sex once (OK, sometimes twice) a week. She’s definitely not stuck in a rut.

But when Nell bumps into childhood friend and first love Arthur Drummond who broke her heart fifteen years ago, she’s more than a little shaken. The seemingly perfect life she’s worked so hard for starts to feel, well, less perfect. Maybe Nell’s been kidding herself all these years. Can she ever get over her first love?

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Readers love Sophia Money-Coutts:

‘A wonderful feel-good novel, just perfect for the garden, the beach or the sofa’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Made me laugh from the first page’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Characters are lovely and lively’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A truly perfect beach read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A funny, heart-warming, romp of a read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Everyone is talking about Did You Miss Me?

‘Enjoyable and endearing’ Katie Fforde

‘With laugh-out-loud moments, you’ll love this romcom’ Prima

‘Hilariously relatable’ Sophie Cousens

‘For fans of Jilly Cooper…warm-hearted, hilarious and romantic’ Best

‘I laughed out loud throughout this’ Laura Jane Williams

‘The perfect poolside page-turner!’ Woman & Home

‘Super funny, super witty and so warm’ Lia Louis

‘It wouldn’t be summer without a new romcom from Sophia Money-Coutts to deliver a hit of bookish serotonin’ Red

‘Funny, joyful, life-affirming’ Cressida McLaughlin

‘Will have you in fits of laughter… move over, Bridget Jones!’ New

‘Surprisingly funny and very saucy’ OK!

‘A laugh-a-minute page-turner, perfect for poolside reading!’ HELLO!

‘Surprisingly saucy and distractingly funny’ GRAZIA

‘No question about it, there are two little purple lines. I’m pregnant.’

After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a blonde twenty-something colleague. So she does what any self-respecting singleton would do: swipes right, puts on her best bra and finds herself on a first date with a handsome mountaineer called Max. What’s the worst that can happen?
 
Well it’s pretty bad actually. First Max ghosts her and then, after weeing on a stick (but mostly her hands), a few weeks later Lil discovers she’s pregnant. She’s single, thirty-one and living in a thimble-sized flat in London, it’s hardly the happily-ever-after she was looking for.

Lil’s ready to do the baby-thing on her own – it can’t be that hard, right? But she should probably tell Max, if she can track him down. Surely he’s not that Max, the highly eligible, headline-grabbing son of Lord and Lady Rushbrooke, currently trekking up a mountain in South Asia? Oh, maybe he wasn’t ignoring Lil after all…  

Praise for Sophia Money-Coutts:

‘So funny. And the sex is amazing!’ Jilly Cooper

‘Hilariously funny – I couldn’t put it down.’ Beth O’Leary

‘A laugh-a-minute page-turner, perfect for poolside reading!’ HELLO!

‘This hilarious novel proves Sophia Money-Coutts is mistress of the romp-com.’ The Sun

‘Howlingly funny’ Sunday Times

‘Wonderfully rude’ Red

‘Surprisingly saucy and distractingly funny’ Grazia

‘Funny and beautifully written … I loved it’ Daily Mail

‘Fizzes with joy’ Metro

‘Hilarious and uplifting’ Woman & Home

‘A thoroughly modern love story’ Woman’s Weekly

‘Does it earn its place in your beach bag? Absolutely’ Evening Standard

‘So funny. And the sex is amazing – makes me feel like a nun!’ Jilly Cooper

‘Light, fizzy and as snort-inducing as a pint of Prosecco.’ Evening Standard Magazine

‘Hilarious and compelling.’ Daily Mail

‘Perfect summer reading for fans of Jilly Cooper and Bridget Jones.’ HELLO!

‘Bridget Jones trapped inside a Jilly Cooper novel. A beach cocktail in book form.’ METRO

‘Gloriously cheering.’ Red Magazine

‘Howlingly funny.’ India Knight, Sunday Times Magazine

‘This saucy read is great sun-lounger fodder.’ Heat

‘Sexy and very funny…perfect for fans of Jilly Cooper.’ Closer

‘Cheerful, saucy and fun!’ The Sunday Mirror

‘As fun and fizzy as a chilled glass of prosecco…this is the perfect read for your holiday.’The Daily Express

‘This book has it all – love, romance, sadness and sex – a rare find that is funny at times and moving at others.’ Marie Claire

The Plus One [n] informal a person who accompanies an invited person to a wedding or a reminder of being single, alone and absolutely plus none

Polly’s not looking for ‘the one’, just the plus one…

Polly Spencer is fine. She’s single, turning thirty and only managed to have sex twice last year (both times with a Swedish banker called Fred), but seriously, she’s fine. Even if she’s still stuck at Posh! magazine writing about royal babies and the chances of finding a plus one to her best friend’s summer wedding are looking worryingly slim.

But it’s a New Year, a new leaf and all that. Polly’s determined that over the next 365 days she’ll remember to shave her legs, drink less wine and generally get her s**t together. Her latest piece is on the infamous Jasper, Marquess of Milton, undoubtedly neither a plus one nor ‘the one’. She’s heard the stories, there’s no way she’ll succumb to his charms…

A laugh-out-loud, toe-curlingly honest debut for fans of Helen Fielding, Bryony Gordon and Jilly Cooper. Don’t miss the hottest book of 2018!

Polly geht es prima, danke der Nachfrage! Klar, sie ist 30 und immer noch Single – aber ihre Mum und ihr bester Freund sind immer für sie da. Und im letzten Jahr hatte sie immerhin ZWEIMAL Sex (beide Male mit einem schwedischen Banker namens Fred). Also ernsthaft, Polly geht es gut! Auch wenn sie immer noch für das Klatschmagazin »Posh!« arbeitet und über die Lieblingshunderassen des britischen Adels schreibt. Da erhält sie den Auftrag, den attraktiven Jasper, Marquess von Milton, auf seinem Landsitz zu interviewen. Natürlich kennt Polly die Gerüchte über den notorischen Herzensbrecher. Auf gar keinen Fall wird sie seinem berühmt-berüchtigten Charme verfallen. Doch dann geht in Pollys Leben mit einem Mal alles drunter und drüber ...

»Darf ich dich jetzt behalten?«:

Eigentlich war Lil sich sicher, dass sie den Richtigen längst gefunden hat. Zumindest bis er sie für eine blonde Kollegin Mitte zwanzig sitzen lässt. Also tut Lil, was jede Single-Frau mit einem letzten Fünkchen Selbstachtung tun würde: Sie hört auf den Rat ihrer besten Freundin, kramt ihren besten BH ganz hinten aus der Schublade und findet sich auf einem Date wieder. Ganz ehrlich, was soll schon passieren? Eine ganze Menge, wie sich ein paar Wochen und einen positiven Schwangerschaftstest später herausstellt. Doch Lils Date ist seit ihrem einzigen Treffen wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. Lil macht sich auf die Suche – denn sicher sah er nur rein zufällig genau so aus wie dieser Max Rushbrooke, Sohn von Lord und Lady Rushbrooke und begehrtester Junggeselle Englands, der die Titelseiten sämtlicher Klatschmagazine beherrscht?

»Die große Liebe kann mich mal«:

Einsam ist Florence auf gar keinen Fall. Sie ist zwar schon ziemlich lange Single – ok, eigentlich hatte sie noch nie eine Beziehung, wenn es jemand ganz genau wissen will. Aber ihr Job in einem quirligen Londoner Buchladen hält sie ziemlich auf Trab, und nach Feierabend leistet ihr der geliebte, aber übergewichtige Kater Gesellschaft. Florence ist mehr als zufrieden mit ihrem Leben, vielen Dank auch! Nur ihre nervige Stiefmutter sieht Optimierungsbedarf und schickt sie zu einem Liebes-Coach. Als erste Übung muss sie eine Liste schreiben mit all den Eigenschaften, die ihr Traummann in sich vereinen soll. Florence kann so eine Liste keinesfalls ernst nehmen: Jemand, der Katzen mag, einen Oberkörper hat wie James Bond und gleichzeitig bei ihrer nervigen Zähl-Marotte die Augen zudrückt? Unmöglich! Bis sie sich ein paar Tage später ungläubig die Augen reibt: Ein gutaussehender junger Mann betritt den Buchladen, der wie von Zauberhand alle Kriterien auf der Liste erfüllt. Zudem ist er adlig und besitzt ein schickes Herrenhaus auf dem Land. Kann das wahr sein?

This Christmas, love is top of Florence Fairfax’s wish list

’Feel-good and enormous fun’ Sophie Kinsella

‘Full of wit, warmth and heart’ Beth O’Leary

‘You want me to write a list? Like a shopping list?'
'Exactly. But for what you want from a man’

Florence Fairfax might have been single for quite a while – well, forever, actually – but she isn’t lonely. She loves her job at the little bookshop in Chelsea and her beloved cat Marmalade who keeps her company at night. She’s perfectly happy, thank you.

So when Florence meets an eccentric love coach who asks her to write a wish list describing her perfect man, she refuses to take it seriously. Until later that week, Rory, a handsome blond man with the sexual athleticism of James Bond she asked for just happens to walk into the bookshop…

Rory seems to tick all of the boxes on Florence’s list. But is she about to discover there’s more to love than being perfect on paper?

A gloriously funny and feel-good read for anyone searching for their perfect match who ticks all of the boxes. Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Beth O’Leary will snort with laughter at this hilarious and heart-warming read.

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Your favourite authors LOVE The Wish List:

’Queen of the smart rom-com. Full of wit, warmth and a truly sweet, satisfying happy ever after’ Daisy Buchanan, Insatiable

‘Funny, touching and totally addictive’ Zara Stoneley, The First Date

‘Impossibly hilarious yet hopeful and heart-warming to book’ Abbie Greaves, The Silent Treatment

‘So clever, funny and brilliantly relatable. I loved, loved loved it! Lucy Vine, Hot Mess

‘Funny and biting, I couldn’t get enough’ Laura Jane Williams, The Love Square

‘Funny and romantic. The perfect escapist read!’ Cressida McLaughlin, The Cornish Cream Tea Summer

’Whipsmart and properly funny, I laughed from the first page’ Alex Brown, A Postcard From Paris