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Автор Александра Поттер

ME AND MR DARCY

Alexandra Potter

Praise for Alexandra Potter

‘Nobody does it quite like Alexandra Potter’

Daily Mail

A winning formula of chaotic heroine meeting eccentric hero, and, after misunderstandings, finding love. Sharply written, pacey and funny .  .  . pure self-indulgence’

The Times

‘Funny, romantic .  .  . tale about what might happen if all your wishes suddenly came true’

Daily Mirror

‘It’s easy-to-relate-to, curl-up-on-the-couch reading’

Cleo

‘This deliriously romantic book is lots of fun’

Woman’s Day (Australia)

‘I loved it – it’s fun, fast and feel-good – the perfect three! Positively dripping with humour and heart’

Helen Lederer

‘Always perceptive, often funny, never dull.

Heat

‘Feel-good fiction full of unexpected twists and turns’

OK!

‘Sharp, witty dialogue’

Scotsman

‘Essential reading for anyone who thinks the grass is greener on the other side’

Company

ME AND MR DARCY

Alexandra Potter

Copyright © 2007 by Alexandra Potter

First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Hodder and Stoughton

An Hachette Livre UK company

The right of Alexandra Potter to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

Ebook ISBN 978 1 848 94165 6

Book ISBN 978 0 340 84113 6

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

An Hachette Livre UK company

338 Euston Road

London NWl 3BH

For my dear friend Dana

CONTENTS

Me and Mr Darcy

Praise for Alexandra Potter

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Chapter Twenty-four

Chapter Twenty-five

Chapter Twenty-six

Chapter Twenty-seven

Chapter Twenty-eight

Chapter Twenty-nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-one

Chapter Thirty-two

Chapter Thirty-three

Chapter Thirty-four

Chapter Thirty-five

Chapter Thirty-six

Epilogue

Mr Darcy: The Dream Date

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost I’d like to say a big, big thank you to everyone at Hodder for all their support and enthusiasm for this book, especially Sara Kinsella, who’s quite simply the best editor a girl can have. Thanks also to Isobel Akenhead for all her hard work and Alice Wright for her beautiful covers. I’m also very grateful to my wonderful agent, Stephanie Cabot, for her continued belief in me as a writer and for not telling me I was crazy when I told her about this idea!