Lizzy Dent

Beach Read meets Sweetbitter in this laugh-out-loud and ultimately heartwarming debut of a good friend's very bad decision and the summer job that stands to ruin or make her life. What if you could be someone else? Just for the summer... Birdy has made a mistake. Everyone imagines running away from their life at some point. But Birdy has actually done it. And the life she's run into is her best friend Heather's. The only problem is, she hasn't told Heather. The summer job at the highland Scottish hotel that her world class wine-expert friend ditched turns out to be a lot more than Birdy bargained for. Can she survive a summer pretending to be her best friend? And can Birdy stop herself from falling for the first man she's ever actually liked, but who thinks she's someone else? One good friend's very bad decision is at the heart of this laugh-out-loud love story and unexpected tale of a woman finally finding herself in the strangest of places.

The Summer Job

From the author of The Summer Job comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming story about one woman’s impulsive fib that jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself. She has a plan. Fate has other ideas. The last place very average thirty-one-year-old Mara Williams thought she’d be is on a solo vacation impersonating her fortune teller when she finally meets the one. Josef, a gorgeous Austrian cellist, sits down for a reading and before she knows it, she’s telling him his destiny will be sitting in a pub in the English seaside town of Broadgate on the last Friday of August. And her name is Mara. Enter Project Mara: three months to turn herself into the stylish, confident woman she’s always hoped to be. Meanwhile, the crumbling, formerly glamorous beachside pool club where she works is under threat and her eccentric colleagues enlist her help to save it, just as a handsome new housemate casts doubts on her ideas about “the one.” Can Mara pull off the transformation of a lifetime? And by summer’s end, will she know who is her destiny?

The Setup

From the author of The Summer Job comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming story about one woman’s impulsive fib that jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself. She has a plan. Fate has other ideas. The last place average thirty-one-year-old Mara Williams thought she’d be is on a solo vacation impersonating her fortune teller. Then Joe, a handsome Austrian cellist sits down for a reading and before she knows it, she’s telling him his destiny will be sitting in a pub in the English seaside town of Broadgate on the last Friday of June. And more specifically, her name is Mara. Enter Project Mara: four months to turn herself into the sophisticated, confident woman she’s always wanted to be before the universe delivers “the one.” Meanwhile the crumbling, formerly glamorous beachside pool club where she works is under threat and her eccentric colleagues enlist her help to save it, just as her new housemate, Mike, proves to be more than she bargained for. Can Mara pull off the transformation of the summer? And what if true love is closer to home than she thinks?

Sweetest Revenge

Brauchen wir nicht alle mal eine Pause vom eigenen Leben? Prickelnde Unterhaltung jetzt für kurze Zeit zum Einführungspreis (eine befristete Preisaktion des Verlages) Birdy Finch hat den absoluten Tiefpunkt in ihrem Leben erreicht: arbeitslos, Beziehungsstatus »kompliziert« und gestrandet auf der Couch ihrer besten Freundin Heather. Die beschließt, ihren Job als Weinsommelière in einem schottischen Hotel sausen zu lassen – und Birdy ergreift die Chance, reist kurzerhand in die Highlands und gibt sich als Heather aus. Wie schwer kann es schon sein, reichen Leuten Wein einzuschenken? Birdy gibt ihr Bestes, um den Wein – äh Schein – zu wahren. Doch nicht nur die Gefühle für den attraktiven Koch James könnten ihr einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen.

Lizzy Dent

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