I really enjoyed this book, a great light, fun summer read! Florence is very likeable and relatable. I loved that while her OCD tendencies were a focus, it wasn't the main plot line and helps to normalise people who also experience them. I also enjoyed the sister's plot line and I liked the general message of the book that if you go out looking for particular traits of future partner, they might not be a perfect as you thought! I also thought it was very well written and great steamy sections! Thank you for Net Galley and HQ for giving me a copy of the book.

Really good read. Would recommend to friends and family. I could sympathise with characters (important for any fiction novel!) and looked forward to picking it up and reading the next few chapters! Interesting plot line and a good ending. Will look out for more novels by the author. Thank you.

This is Sophia Money-Coutts' third novel, and it's every bit as filled with fun and laughter as the first two. Florence Fairfax is 32, single, working in a job she enjoys, but which isn't going anywhere, and is just a little bit stuck. Her flighty, hilarious stepmother decides to change this by sending her to a love coach that she saw in a magazine. She's definitely not a quack, because she was written up in the magazine! 
Florence's love coaching involves writing a list of the qualities she wants in a man, which include having a nice bum, liking cats, and not minding Florence's counting, an anxiety mechanism that permeates her life. And, the week after she has her first meeting with her love coach, a man walks into her bookshop and asks her out. Taking her first tentative steps into a relationship, Flo realises that perhaps what she wrote on her list wasn't necessarily everything she wanted in a man.
Rory the Tory, the tall, handsome man who sweeps her off her feet and introduces her to black and white dinners, trips to his country home, and sex that makes you say 'cowabunga!' is a Very Nice young man, with good prospects and a good work ethic. But even if he ticks all the boxes, perhaps Florence is going to discover that what she wants and what she needs are two very different things.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, as it weaved together family concerns, anxiety, comfort zones, relationships, friendship, and a gorgeous, grumpy cat called Marmalade. Flo is a really relatable main character, with a frank, funny inner monologue, and I really felt like I could have been friends with her. Rory is a fairly infuriating first experience of a boyfriend, but he felt really real. And Zach, the nephew of Flo's boss who comes in to help out in the bookstore, the tattooed photographer with a motorbike and a penchant for leaving cups of coffee in places where they definitely should not be, is a real dreamboat, even if Flo doesn't think so. Florence's fractured, funny family, where her two half-sisters and stepmother feel like the real family and she's the tagalong from the first marriage, feels very real, as she tries to cope with her feelings of isolation from the family unit, but the love between them is still solid and heartwarming. And I absolutely loved Mia and her feelings about her wedding, together with her mother's outrageous reactions to the wedding day scandals.

All in all, a funny and warm book that felt like just what I needed to cheer me up in these strange times.

Unlucky in love Flo has lives at home with her 2 half sisters and has never had a boyfriend. Until her new social climbing step-mother forces her to meet the latest love guru. Flo writes a list of the man she wants and just days later he walks into the bookshop in which she works but is he what she's really looking for.

This was a light easy read that I could definitely manage reading by a pool or on a beach with a drink in hand.

Full of heart, laugh-out-loud & so oh binge-worthy! 

This novel was so addictive honestly couldn't put this down, its the humour is pitch-perfect. The 'cowbunga' moment had me in absolute stitches, even now writing this I'm chuckling about it.

Money-Coutts writing style is so effortless and engaging, it is reminiscent of Marian Keyes.

I whole-heartedly recommend for anyone looking for an uplifting read filled with laughter. I for one absolutely cannot wait for her next book!

A huge thanks to HQ Stories & NetGalley for sending me a copy in return for an open & honest review.

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This is my first sophia book, it wont be my last.  It tells the story of Florence and her search for love.  I actually really enjoyed this story, and i like all the characters apart from Rory. There was just something about him that didnt sit right with me.  But, he and all the other characters all worked perfectly within the book.  There were times i laughed out loud,  and times i really felt for the characters.  I did figure out the storyline quite early on, but that being said, i did really enjoy the story as a whole. I would recommend this book if you fancy something querky and cheerful as it does deliver. A lovely story all about finding true love.  Thank you to net galley for the oppurtunity

This is the story of 32-year-old Flo who’s never had a boyfriend, finds one after a love guru gets her to write a ‘wish list’ for her ideal man so that the universe can deliver it to her – in the form of Rory the Tory. And, I loved the essence of this book which is that “having the wrong boyfriend is way more complicated than not having a boyfriend at all.”

It’s pretty predictable in that Flo naturally ends up not with Rory the Tory but the guy who doesn’t meet any of the criteria on her wish list and who she dislikes instantly upon first meeting. But, mostly this genre is pretty predictable and I think that’s the point, it’s a tried and tested formula that we love because it works.

This is also slightly quirky in that it’s a bit yin and yang. In some respects it’s quite twee with brace-wearing toffs, Cinderella style stepmothers, Dickensian bookshops and vocabulary like “calamitous”. But, it’s also weirdly contemporary with laugh-out-loud situational humour, descriptive sex scenes, bloggers and hashtags. I particularly enjoyed the bit where a teenage Instagram poet’s dog humps Flo’s leg live on stage at the bookshop’s first author event.

This is an easy read, despite long chapters, providing much-needed funny feel-good escapism.

I've just finished this book after only starting it a couple of days ago, it was definitely my kind of book, I loved it!
The story focuses on Florence Fairfax a 30 something with a history of failed romances, after having a number of sessions booked with a love expert by her pushy stepmother, Florence creates her ultimate wish list for her dream man. 
Whilst at work, in a small Chelsea bookshop, she meets Rory (Rory the Tory) a pompous, self centered arrogant man with dreams of being the next PM. Florence falls for him whilst obviously unbeknownst to her, but obvious to the reader, also falling for Zach the nephew of the bookshops owner.
What unravels is beautifully written love triangle,  her sisters disastrous wedding, a tragedy of the animal kind and finally a happy ever after.
Perfect book that left me feeling happy! Thanks for sharing and allowing me to review - and please write a sequel!!

A real romp of a read full of energy and belly laughs. I loved Florence and all her quirks with the whole ‘number game’ thing being an excellent addition to her personality. I think we all have a little bit of Florence in us. 

There were a few memorable scenes with one that even made me snort drink out my nose. So hilarious that I couldn’t stop randomly laughing. 

There were some heart wrenching moments too that brought a tear to my eye. 

The Wish List is a wonderfully fun story written beautifully. I loved it.

This story had me hooked from the beginning, it was so easy to read and made me giggle! 

The main story is a love story, but there are elements of family, work, a cat, and saving a beloved book shop! 

A very enjoyable read, which you won’t want to put down.

I like books that are set in bookshops, and this was a nice light read! But I think again, the romance felt a little contrived...

A fun and easy, albeit predictable read, with likeable characters and a good storyline. An ideal Summer read which you can binge in a day.

4 stars.

The Wish List by Sophia Money-Coutts grew on me as I read it.  I feel that it wallowed in the middle and would have benefitted from being severely edited.  Some of the characters added nothing to the development of the plot and I'm not sure that we needed all the sex scenes.  It picked up again towards the end and I enjoyed the relationship between Florence and her sisters and friends.

This is a very funny book - a typical beach read. 
Florence is lovely. I loved reading about her relationship with her sisters and friends at the shop -  but she is a bit daft, Rory you just want to slap for being so stereotype and Gwendolyn is a love coach .
If you want to escape and laugh try reading it

Easily in my top twenty best reads of 2020. Great escapist fiction that's both well written but with an emotional punch that I didn't see coming and nearly had me in tears. Florence is an exquisite depiction of a flawed character with a touch of the Cinderella hovering around the edges. Her hunt for Prince Charming fraught with modern day mishaps. There's even a self-obsessed step mother and a couple of ditzy half sisters thrown in for good measure. As for the fairy godmother... a new one on me.

Really enjoyed this book! It was charming and light-hearted. Perfect for when you want a quick, fluffy read.

Fantastically funny and very well written, I have been really impressed by both of this author's novels and will definitely be seeking out more of her work in the future.

Great, 3dimensional characters who sparkle off the page - you end the novel genuinely caring about each and every one.

Highly recommended.

This was a cute, lovely story about Florence. a 32 year old bookseller who has never had a boyfriend, but overall she is pretty happy with her life. When her sister gets engaged, her step mum books her an appointment to see a love guru, who makes her write a wish list of a perfect man - who turns out to be a man who walks into her life the next day, civil servant aspiring Conservative MP, Rory Dundee. But as the book goes on, and the relationship carries on, it is clearer and clearer to just because a man fits the description of a perfect man, doesn't mean that he will make you happy. 

I thought this book was good, and sweet, and the real love story was really well told in the second half of the book. I loved the relationship between Florence and her sisters, and I even enjoyed the way that her disappointment with her distant relationship with her dad was handled, although I think that could have been handled better.  

Where I felt the book fell down was how it looked at class. I thought the book sometimes came off a bit classist without necessarily investigating that. 

Overall, I thought this was sweet - it was also interesting posh people love story (everyone was posh, not just Rory).

This is a story featuring some very posh people behaving in a way that we have been led to expect, by the media, that they do.  Florence is the daughter of a career diplomat; he works abroad but Flo's step-mother and step-sister, like herself, live in London.  Step-mother Patricia is the worst snob, and she was previously her husband's secretary!  There are plenty of amusing incidents as everyone tries to sort out their lives, with help from each other, colleagues, friends and Gwendolyn the love therapist.  Funny and sex-filled, but also great characters and mostly believable.  Recommended.

This was an engaging and immersive read. I started reading it and suddenly it was 5am. I laughed out loud at bits, cried for a whole chapter, had full body cringe-attacks in some moments. It was a fun read, a sort of book about nothing but a good book about nothing.
It was predictable, you knew exactly where the book was going but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There were characters you enjoyed reading about and the narrator was relatable enough and funny enough to be someone you enjoyed travelling through the book with. 

There were bits that I didn't really like. The female antagonists were stereotypical mean girls, the sex scenes that are written about are with a person who's horrible and the ending felt too perfect, too cliched, whereas the rest of the book felt more balanced and realistic. Whilst the Tory voting, gun toting aristocracy are mocked, the main character and her family are incredibly privileged too, and it was weird seeing them lambasting the social class just above them like they were from underprivileged, working class backgrounds. Mocking someone for eating grouse doesn't really work if you then talk about wearing a designer who dressed Meghan Markle.

This was a fun book and it's definitely worth a read- just don't expect it to stand out amongst all the other romance novels featuring a not-really-conventionally-attractive-but-is-desirable-in-a-awkward-but-not-too-nuanced heroine.