Significant Others

There are two versions of this love story, depending on who you ask.

Ramona’s phone rings, interrupting a terrible first date. It’s her sister calling to say that their estranged mother is dying.

Leaving in the middle of her Chicken Biryani, Ramona boards the next train home, braced for grief and a decade of unfinished business. She isn’t prepared to find Max at her mother’s bedside – her teenage antagonist, and where everything went wrong.

Then the will is read. Her mother has left the house to Ramona, her sister and, inexplicably, Max. There’s one condition: to claim their inheritance, Ramona and Max must travel to Paris together and scatter her ashes.

Ramona has spent half her life running from what happened. But now she and Max are forced back together – and she’s about to discover that neither of them remembers their story quite the same way.

If they got the past wrong, could they finally get the future right?

FIRST LOVE. SECOND CHANCES. A ROMANCE FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING. THIS IS MHAIRI MCFARLANE AT HER ABSOLUTE BEST.

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