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Back Fancy Meeting You Here
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

‘Thank you everybody for coming tonight. There’s no pressure to read the sodding thing, but please, for the love of god, buy a copy and keep Liam fed!’

His audience laughed again, then clapped and cheered. As Hugo stepped through the crowd to find Evie, her heart swelled to the point of bursting. Tonight would go down in history as one of the best moments of her life.

PART TWO

PART TWO

NINETEEN

Nineteen

Evie opened the box on the coffee table to reveal a new iPhone in a black Prada case. She’d told Hugo time and time again not to spend crazy money on gifts for her. And she’d meant it. Evie didn’t need expensive presents to know Hugo loved her. But Hugo didn’t seem to understand this mentality. ‘I want to spoil you because now I can,’ he would say.

Evie read the note attached to the phone. A little something to ensure that we are never far away from one another, even when oceans divide us. Hugo xxx. She traced her fingers across his loopy handwriting, folded the letter in half, then placed it back on the bedside table. These notes had become their little ritual. Thoughts and declarations of his love filling the void of his absence.

Over the past few months, Hugo had been on the road almost as much as he’d been home. After his tour around the UK, which he’d left for just days after his book launch, he’d travelled to Sydney and Auckland, then come back to London just in time for Christmas and the New Year. Now he was back home briefly after finishing his four-city US book tour, but soon he would head to Italy, then back to LA, where he’d do more events and press before spending time with Louise Chang, the US producer of the Henrietta’s Gift film, who they’d finally secured. It felt to Evie like Hugo’s fans adored him almost as much as she did, and with each new book signing, press conference or TV interview came another hefty royalty cheque. Evie was thrilled for him, of course. All that he had ever dreamed of was materialising before his eyes, and she knew there was so much more to come.