Really liked this book. Flo was such a relatable character!
This books made me groan and laugh and everything in between! Definitely a feel-good book to get you out of a funk or just because. Absolutely worth the read.

Florence doesn't need a man, she is quite happy living with her two half sisters and her beloved cat marmalade. Yes she might be past 30 and hasn't had a boyfriend but that's okay...
Until her step mum insists Florence sees a love coach who makes her write a list of what she wants in and man, Florence is sceptical but does as she is asked and then shoves the list in her trusty backpack. The seemingly perfect man seems to appear in the bookshop where she works a week later so maybe writing the list works?
The book made me cringe, laugh and cry for Florence (and with her) but I loved the idea. Some parts really made me think my life choices and the people I have around me too.
The outcome was to an extent predictable but I still enjoyed it!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.

I really enjoyed this book! It's addictive, funny, and was a very quick read for me.

Florence was a joy to read and I loved her relationship with her sisters and colleagues. The character development throughout the story was excellent, seeing Florence learn and gain confidence made me so happy.

Such an enjoyable read!

Book Warnings: Pet Death

So I recieved a free copy of this as part of a blog tour. Full review to come.

But as much as I expected to love this I found it kind of slow and wasn't sure. I loved a lot of the characters and the idea of the book held its appeal throughout. But I still wasn't completely sold.

This book is a hybrid of chick-lit and romance and if you're looking for something sex positive but with chick-lit vibes then this could be the book for you.

This was a fun book.

Characters that were relatable and likeable - even the ones that are there purely to be laughed at.

Florence Fairfax is single, in her 30's, living with her sisters and Marmalade, working in a job that she loves and is fairly happy with her lot in life.

Until one of her sisters announces that she is getting married and then Flo's step-mum begins to lament about Flo's lack of suitors. This ends with Flo agreeing to go and see a relationship therapist with the proviso that her family are never to bring the subject up again.

Although highly predictable, the journey that Flo goes on is so well written. All of the characters are well rounded and none of them are superfluous.

A highly recommended bit of escapism that is very well written.

Florence Fairfax is perfectly happy being single, thank you. Her days are more than taken up with the job that she loves at a tiny bookshop in Chelsea, and at night...well she can always cuddle up to her favourite gentleman, Marmalade the cat.

But when Florence's younger half-sister announces that she is getting married to the incredibly dull Hugo, her singledom becomes a matter for debate among her family and they arrange for her to pay a visit to the eccentric love guru Gwendolyn.

Gwendolyn gets Florence to write a list of everything she is looking for in a man, and after some hastily mumbled incantations, she sends her out into the world with the assurance that she will now be able to find love.

Lo and behold, an eligible bachelor drops into Florence's lap later that same week, in the form of the handsome, and frightfully posh, aspiring politician Rory - who appears to have all the attributes she has written on her wish list. But is he really 'The One', or has she been looking in all the wrong places...and for the wrong sort of 'Mr Right'?

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I love Sophia Money-Coutts' books. They never fail to make me laugh and cry in equal measure, with just the right amount of 'hot under the collar' naughtiness thrown in! So I was really looking forward to immersing myself in Sophia's third rom-com, The Wish List, and what an absolute joy it was!

Florence Fairfax makes for a winning heroine, with insecurities that make you want to pick her up and give her a big hug. After losing her mother at a young age and being saddled with a social climbing step-mother, and two half-sisters who are very close to each other, she has always felt a bit of an outsider. Florence relies on routine and her counting habit for reassurance, and this might make her seem a bit weird to those who don't know her well, but she has her heart firmly in the right place, and although she is not desperate to have a man in her life, she is not averse to meeting Mr Right as it might be rather nice to finally have a boyfriend.

Forced to confront her single state, Florence finds herself with love on the horizon in the form of a man who seems to tick all the boxes on her wish list, but is is not as easy negotiating a relationship as she thought, even if the sex is a revelation, when she is barely coping with the impending wedding of the year, trying to save the beloved bookshop where she works, and juggling friends and family. How can she tell if Rory is really the man she has been looking for, or even the man she actually needs?

Well, suffice to say, Florence's search for true love does not run smooth, and to be honest the other parts of her life are a bit chaotic too, but it was absolutely lovely to be along for the ride as all the threads of the story work out to their various hilarious, romantic and 'fist-pumpingly' gorgeous conclusions.

This is another winner from the pen of Sophia Money-Coutts, with a fabulous cast of characters drawn from the posher parts of society, mixed deftly in with us more ordinary mortals, in the way that she has made her own. I am always seeing Sophia vaunted as the new Jilly Cooper, but for me, her books are so much more heart-felt and funny, which makes them such a tonic for the soul.