Book Review: You had me at hello

It feels so bereft when a good book comes to an end. All of a sudden you are transported back to the real world. It's not that there's something vicious about the real world but then fantasy is always perfect or it's the perfection that makes it a fantasy. This is what exactly happened to me when I reached the last page of 'You had me at hello'.

Mhairi Mcfarlen is a wordsmith for she certainly knows how to play with words. The book deals with the past and present at such a swift speed that you hardly register it. It is humorous, story is good, I almost knew the end but still the end brought a smile on my face. How we love happy endings!

The two protagonists Rachel and ben are like the Bunty and bubbly. Ben ki Rachel and Rachel ka Ben and yet everything is so platonic between them or it appears so to the readers until the night before their graduation ball. And then things fall apart. They meet again after a decade but the equation is not that simple...Ben is married and Rachel not. What happens then is what the book is about. Mhairi has taken potshots at the people around, at the situations and has done it with a flair and wit. The book is a fiction and yet the characterisation is so real. Makes for an excellent light read.