Modern dating’s a mess. A fun, relatable romcom from Vogue's dating columnist and the author of Notes on Heartbreak‘Raw, funny and sexy. When Harry Met Sally for the club smoking area' RÓISÍN LANIGAN‘A romcom for messy girls everywhere’ STYLIST'Captures the texture of contemporary dating... in the way that Dolly Alderton, Helen Fielding or Nora Ephron did for previous generations' GUARDIANDaisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties to sticky-floored smoking areas, drinks in hand.But after a regrettable one-night stand with her annoying friend James, Daisy wonders why, in a sea of intelligent, gorgeous women, do all their prospects seem so hopeless.It’s time for The Project, a radical reinvention of dating, and who better to start with than James?James may be raw material, but he’s happy to go along with Daisy and Maya if it means more time alone with Daisy. But as Daisy sets out to transform him into the perfect partner, she realises she might already like him exactly as he is...'Annie Lord is a breath of fresh air' YOMI ADEGOKE‘A delicious romcom’ VOGUEReaders are falling in love with THE PROJECT‘It felt like I was on FaceTime to my best friend and she was filling me in on all the dating gossip’ *****‘Captures all the feelings of love, fun, and life in that exciting period where everything seems possible’ *****‘The perfect book to recommend to all my fellow romance fiction book lovers!’ *****
Annie Lord is a writer for Vogue and the author of the memoir Notes on Heartbreak. She also writes for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New Statesman, i-D, Independent and Dazed.
Lord has an uncanny knack for turning the private observations of a group chat into compelling material. The novel captures the texture of dating with anthropological precision, in the way that Dolly Alderton, Helen Fielding or Nora Ephron did for previous generations of women