We asked… Mhairi McFarlane answered

Bridget Jones, watch your back: Novelist Mhairi McFarlane’s heroines (most recently in the madcap It’s Not Me It’s You) are hilarious, a little hapless and all heart. This Scot’s stories make us laugh and cry, and it turns

out she also gives great love advice.

QRon is handsome and charming… and uses mjrly pnfl txtspk. Should I look beyond

his poor command of written English? “It’s over. Unless he’s going to claim that his Bieber-aged cousin kidnapped his phone, this sort of nonsense is a stone-cold boner killer.”

QWhen I arrived early for a Tinder date last night, my “match” was having drinks with someone else! Am I old-fashioned for being appalled? “Tinder: It’s a revolving door for hookups, a meaningless carousel of bunga bunga. If you’re shocked by the speed of turnover, you need to be on a dating site where the home-page banner is a couple in white linen shirts hold

ing hands on a New England beach at sunset.”

QMy husband and I consider Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” to be “our song.” (We met at a Lion King performance!)

I ran into his high-school girlfriend, and I found out it had been their song too! Is my husband some sort of sociopath? “No, he just really, really likes that song. As long as they

didn’t marry to it, you’re okay. Look, if Prince William can give Kate his mother’s engagement ring and have it considered good luck, then you

can share a Lion King tune. If you must.” n