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Delia Moss isn't quite sure where she went wrong. Everything was going smoothly. Ok, she had a slightly rubbish job working for the council and she hadn't seen her best friend Emma in god knows how long, but she'd been working up to proposing to Paul for months. This. Was. It. But with one annoying little 'beep beep', Delia's life is turned upside down and rather than stick around and commit GBH by punching her cheating scumbag boyfriend (who still wants to be with her) in the chops, she decides the best thing to do would be get some head space and leave for London. But a new city is never going to be the answer, and with a dodgy new job in media PR, where a suspicious yet devastatingly handsome journalist seems to be sniffing around and endangering her job, Delia can't run forever. Where did the old Delia go? And can she get her back?
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CW: death of a pet due to illness, including description of diagnosis, last 24 hours together and euthanasia. I first marked this book as DNF, but then decided to go back and try to read through it. I did manage but it was a long slog. I think McFarlane has become a better author since this early work; It's Not Me, It's You was standard Chick Lit with a fairly hapless heroine and a jerky boyfriend who turns down her marriage proposal and then is revealed to be cheating on her with a younger coworker. Even Delia's journey towards growth is pretty unrewarding; she ends up doing PR work for an obviously odious boss, and the alleged Mr. Right is frankly just as awful as her ex-boyfriend, if not more. He starts out blackmailing her, immediately assumes the worst about her relationship with her boss, lets Delia think he is dating a beautiful journalist, and patronizes her when they finally end up on the same side. When Delia grows a spine and starts sticking up for herself, it's too little and too late. The other subplots, about Delia's resurrection of her comic book superhero story, and her confusing e-relationship with a mysterious guy who sends inflammatory, troll-like emails to her first place of employment, are under-developed. At least one of them should have been trimmed or deleted. I really enjoyed McFarlane's more recent books, including [b:Don't You Forget About Me 34109621 Don't You Forget About Me Mhairi McFarlane https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1547391932l/34109621.SY75.jpg 55135579] and [b:If I Never Met You 51213487 If I Never Met You Mhairi McFarlane https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1595853597l/51213487.SY75.jpg 71665792], whose heroines had more agency and confidence, but I think I went a little too far into her backlist.
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