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The bestselling romcom from Louise Candlish, two-time Richard & Judy Book Club pick and British Book Award winner for Our House, now a four-part ITVX drama
Welcome to the Noughties. Pre-iPhones and Instagram, long before matcha lattes. When work-life balance meant working hard and living harder.
But affairs of the heart were always tricky and this one involves the mother of all deceptions…
Anna has waited a long time to fall in love and now that she has, she's not going to let her boyfriend Charlie’s mother stand in her way. Meredith is a snob, frighteningly cultured and impossible to impress – so far, party animal Anna hasn't even been allowed to meet her.
But when Charlie leaves town for the summer, Anna decides to take matters into her own hands. Reinventing herself from ‘one of the boys’ in an office full of foul-mouthed sales reps into a demure daughter-in-law to be, she embraces a wholesome new lifestyle. Garden parties, art galleries, little vintage tea dresses and no-makeup makeup – as charm offensives go, it seems almost too easy.
Until – one extraordinary group holiday to Andalusia later – it’s suddenly not.
‘Superbly crafted comedy with a classic make-over theme…Ripe for Hollywood’ Elle
‘Beautifully written, powerfully true’ Jenny Colgan
Genre: Romance
Welcome to the Noughties. Pre-iPhones and Instagram, long before matcha lattes. When work-life balance meant working hard and living harder.
But affairs of the heart were always tricky and this one involves the mother of all deceptions…
Anna has waited a long time to fall in love and now that she has, she's not going to let her boyfriend Charlie’s mother stand in her way. Meredith is a snob, frighteningly cultured and impossible to impress – so far, party animal Anna hasn't even been allowed to meet her.
But when Charlie leaves town for the summer, Anna decides to take matters into her own hands. Reinventing herself from ‘one of the boys’ in an office full of foul-mouthed sales reps into a demure daughter-in-law to be, she embraces a wholesome new lifestyle. Garden parties, art galleries, little vintage tea dresses and no-makeup makeup – as charm offensives go, it seems almost too easy.
Until – one extraordinary group holiday to Andalusia later – it’s suddenly not.
‘Superbly crafted comedy with a classic make-over theme…Ripe for Hollywood’ Elle
‘Beautifully written, powerfully true’ Jenny Colgan
Genre: Romance
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