Well, isn’t that how every love story starts? But what we don’t know is, how will it end?

For Maggie, she certainly didn’t expect it to involve discovering the supposed love-of-her-life has stolen her life-savings, along with her home, heart and self-esteem.

So, when she meets Flick, a young reporter who realizes this story could be the big break she’s been looking for, they set off together to catch him as he goes on the run across Europe. After all, she’s got nothing left to lose, right?

But as the pair embark on the road trip of their lives, unexpected twists, hidden secrets and hard truths are revealed. And as an unlikely friendship begins to blossom, they realize it’s not just about finding the guy, it’s about finding themselves . . .

‘The Bridget Jones for our times’ – Daily Telegraph

'A rip-roaring plot and some of the best twists I’ve ever read - So, I Met This Guy is going to be THE mega hit of 2026!' - Matt Cain

'A thrilling, witty, twisty, turny wonderful adventure with a grand splosh of self-discovery' - Milly Johnson

‘Say hello to a book that will have you laughing with every page, whether you’re twenty, forty or 80’ – Heat

‘Brilliant! Laughing out loud’ – Emma Gannon, Ctrl Alt Delete podcaster and author of Olive

‘Funny but layered, light-hearted but surprisingly deep’ – Red

The new Bridget Jones -- Celia Walden on Confessions * The Daily Telegraph *
A dream of a book - warm, insightful and absolutely hilarious . . . I laughed, I cried, I texted all my forty-something friends -- Lindsey Kelk, bestselling author of Love Me Do
Alexandra Potter is a genius! So, I Met This Guy has two brilliant central characters, a rip-roaring plot and some of the best twists I’ve ever read - there’s no way you’ll ever predict them! But I can confidently predict one thing - it is going to be THE mega hit of 2026! -- Matt Cain, author of The Madonna of Bolton
'A thrilling, witty, twisty, turny wonderful adventure with a grand splosh of self-discovery' -- Milly Johnson, author of Same Time Next Week
Brilliant! Laughing out loud -- Emma Gannon, bestselling author of Olive, on Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
A warm, very funny read -- Bella on Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

Alexandra Potter is the bestselling author of numerous romantic comedy fiction novels in the UK, including One Good Thing and Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up, one of the bestselling books of 2022 and 2023 and the basis of a major TV series. These titles have sold in twenty-eight territories and have achieved worldwide sales of more than one million copies, making the bestseller charts across the world.

Yorkshire-born and raised, Alexandra lived for several years in LA before settling in London with her Californian husband and their Bosnian rescue dog. When she’s not writing or travelling, she’s getting out into nature, trying not to look at her phone and navigating this thing called mid-life.