Don't Mention the Ex

Clara Ashworth has spent five years being perfectly fine about her university ex. She has a good job, a good flat, and a boyfriend with a very organised training plan. She is, by any measurable metric, absolutely fine.

And then her best friend books a Cotswolds manor house for her thirtieth birthday, and Julian Ashford walks into the kitchen on a Friday afternoon, making tea, looking entirely like himself.

Fine, it turns out, has its limits.

Warm, wickedly funny, and full of the specific agony of being very composed about something that deserves to be felt, Don't Mention the Ex is a second-chance British romance about the things we carry in silence - and the weekends that make us finally put them down.