In my quest to try new authors this year I have found a new favorite! Mhairi McFarlane.

I absolutely love a good Brit Chick Lit book. Think JoJo Moyes, Sophie Kinsella, Jane Green. I especially love when they’re funny. Well Mhairi McFarlane has had me laughing out loud with her quick wit and fabulous one-liners. I have been plowing through everything she has written. I started with You Had Me at Hello in hopes that I would like it. After that, I was hooked and moved on to After Hello (short story) that followed You Had Me at Hello. Ben and Rachel met in college and immediately became the best of friends. Rachel has been in a long-term relationship, and Ben’s good looks and charm keep him well taken care of on the dating scene. Ben and Rachel are “just friends” until one night, followed by a misunderstanding and some heartache. The two cross paths a decade later and there is still this underlying connection between the two that they both desperately try to deny.

Loving both books so much, I grabbed Who’s That Girl , which was very “Notting Hill” with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Edie is thrown off center when co-worker Jack kisses her….at HIS WEDDING!! Edie seems to get the full brunt of the repercussions and Jack goes on unscathed. This turn of events sends Edie packing her bags, tail tucked between her legs, and heading home, where she certainly does not want to be. Her boss has given her an assignment to keep her out of the office for a while. She is to interview an actor so she can ghostwrite his autobiography, which she is dreading. However, as it turns out, he’s not as much of an asshat as she thought he would be.

Here’s Looking at You is a duckling turned swan type of story. Anna (formally known in school as Auerliana) is talked into attending her high school reunion. She was bullied and tormented all throughout her high school years, and one boy in particular (whom she had a crush on) ended up pulling one of the biggest pranks on her leaving her completely humiliated and feeling worthless. Ugly Auerliana doesn’t exist anymore, and no one at the reunion knows who this mysterious and sexy Anna is, not even James, who Anna now loathes. However, when Anna meets James again through a work project she finds him polite, kind, and funny, quite possibly a changed man, but can she trust him?

I am currently devouring It’s Not Me, It’s You. I am LOVING this Delia. She proposed to her live-in boyfriend of 10 years, only to find out on the same night that he’s been sleeping with a 24 year old for the past three months! She quits her awful job and tries to rediscover who she was before she was “Paul and Delia.”

So if you love a good British romantic comedy, please try any one of these books. I promise you will laugh while cheering on our heroines. Each of them have this amazing strength and the vulnerability, along with a great sense of humor.