This is Awkward

She swore she’d never cross paths with him again. She just didn’t count on him being the star of her new show.

After more than a decade as a stage manager, Violet Hathersay has walked away from a successful theatre career to start again from the very bottom in film and TV.

She’s thirty-four, she’s a trainee, and her bosses are mostly twenty-somethings. She can handle that.

What she cannot handle is Finn Ellington turning up on her first morning as the lead actor of a brand-new period drama — the same Finn Ellington who, back at college, was late to every rehearsal, charmed his way through every assessment, and cost Violet the drama school place she’d spent years working towards.

She blamed him. She told him so. And then she never expected to see him again.

Now they’re stuck together on the same Yorkshire set for months — and the infuriating thing isn’t the history between them.

It’s that, somewhere between the early call times, the chaos of set life and the banter that won’t quit, she’s starting to wonder if she ever really knew him at all.

Funny, sharp and genuinely tender, This is Awkward is an enemies-to-lovers workplace romance packed with behind-the-scenes drama, slow-burn tension and a love story eighteen years in the making — perfect for fans of Portia MacKintosh, Mhairi McFarlane and anyone who has ever had to be professionally pleasant to someone they absolutely cannot stand.