Mhairi McFarlane is an internationally bestselling novelist, born in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1976. She went to school in Nottingham, studied English Language & Literature at Manchester University, then returned to Nottingham to delight its citizens with her journalism. After roles as trainee reporter, reporter, feature writer and columnist, she realised she'd climbed to the very top of the mountain at the Nottingham Post and, at 31, decided to write a novel. Her debut romantic comedy, You Had Me at Hello, was an instant hit when it was published in 2012. She has since written eleven more books and become one of the UK's best-loved voices in romantic comedy. She was also fortunate enough to join the writers' room for series five of one of her favourite television shows, Slow Horses.
