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Fancy Meeting You Here

Ali Berg
Chapters (52)
  1. COVER PAGE
  2. DEDICATION
  3. PART ONE
  4. ONE
  5. TWO
  6. THREE
  7. FOUR
  8. FIVE
  9. SIX
  10. SEVEN
  11. EIGHT
  12. NINE
  13. TEN
  14. ELEVEN
  15. TWELVE
  16. THIRTEEN
  17. FOURTEEN
  18. FIFTEEN
  19. SIXTEEN
  20. SEVENTEEN
  21. EIGHTEEN
  22. PART TWO
  23. NINETEEN
  24. TWENTY
  25. TWENTY-ONE
  26. TWENTY-TWO
  27. TWENTY-THREE
  28. TWENTY-FOUR
  29. TWENTY-FIVE
  30. TWENTY-SIX
  31. TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. TWENTY-NINE
  34. THIRTY
  35. THIRTY-ONE
  36. THIRTY-TWO
  37. THIRTY-THREE
  38. THIRTY-FOUR
  39. THIRTY-FIVE
  40. THIRTY-SIX
  41. THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. THIRTY-NINE
  44. FORTY
  45. FORTY-ONE
  46. FORTY-TWO
  47. FORTY-THREE
  48. FORTY-FOUR
  49. FORTY-FIVE
  50. FORTY-SIX
  51. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  52. ABOUT THE AUTHORS

COVER PAGE

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DEDICATION

For our real-life romantic leads, Alex and Dave.

And for Lily.

PART ONE

PART ONE

ONE

One

Evie Berry could recall the best kiss from just about every romantic film ever made. Just mention a title and she’d instantly describe it. 10 Things I Hate About You—Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger covered in paint and rolling in hay. Love Actually—Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon on stage at Natalie’s brother’s school play. Sixteen Candles—Molly Ringwald and Michael Schoeffling smooching over a birthday cake.

But Evie’s all-time favourite on-screen kiss—the one that made all other romantic entanglements seem utterly underwhelming—was from the last scene of Henrietta’s Gift. The jaw-droppingly handsome and multi-talented author, screenwriter and star of Henrietta’s Gift, Hugo Hearst, kisses Margot Gale in a forest after they’ve been separated for over a year. It is a kiss of passion, a kiss of unadulterated yearning, a kiss of reverence—and a kiss Evie desired with all her heart.

That very kiss was one of the reasons Evie and her mate, Ben Feldman, were standing in front of an olive-green door to a run-down shopfront crammed inconspicuously between a bagel bakery and a souvlaki store on Brick Lane.

‘Are you sure this is the right place?’ Ben asked.

Evie nodded, ignoring his clear scepticism.

Evie and Ben had become friends while they were studying film at the University of London. It had only been a few years after Evie’s parents had ‘ruined her life’ by ripping her from her happy, sun-kissed life in Melbourne and moving to the UK. During her first two years in The Big Smoke, Evie had endured the ‘nightmare’ experience of studying for her A-levels at an all-girls college where friendships had long since been set in stone. So, Ben had been her first truly deep and meaningful London friend. She’d pegged him right away as an easy-going people person—a quality in her closest Aussie pals that she’d missed. So, when their lecturer had dropped a bag of pencils all over the floor and Ben had sprung up to help her collect them—rather than sniggering like all the other students—Evie had known she had to be friends with him. It wasn’t long before Evie discovered that everyone who came into contact with Ben was instantly drawn in by his warmth and kindness—or what his mother Brenda described as his ‘mensch-ness’.