Welcome to Your Life by Bethany RutterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Serena jilts her fiancé just minutes before their wedding, he's the only man she's ever slept with and they've been together ten years, everyone says she's lucky to have someone as good-looking and solvent and h=kind as Alistair but Serena realises (almost too late) that they've become cosy friends and the spark has gone.
So, to the horror of her family, she cancels the wedding and moves to London to stay with her best friend Lola, who gets her a job as a copywriter with a jewellery company owned by a college friend. Serena decides to put herself out there and resolves to go on a Tinder date a week, not realising that she is sabotaging herself by only swiping right on men than she thinks might fancy a plus-sized woman (ie mediocre) rather than men she finds attractive. Inevitably what follows are a series of appalling dates with weird men!
With the help of her work friend Nicole, who is also plus-sized but carries herself with a confidence and panache that Serena can't emulate, and Lola Serena realises that old cliché that in order to be lovable you first need to love yourself, and if that don't work, fake it 'til you make it.
I did enjoy this, don't get me wrong, it was charming and funny without trying too hard. I liked Serena and I liked the way that there was no Hollywood ending,(view spoiler)
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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