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What to expect

Modern dating’s a mess. Unfortunately, so are they.

Daisy 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 particularly regrettable one-night stand with her annoying friend James, Daisy starts to look around and wonder why, in a sea of intelligent, gorgeous women, 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 quite happy to go along with Daisy and Maya if it means a little more time alone with Daisy. But falling for James was never part of The Project - can she bring down her walls enough to let someone in? Because she might not find someone perfect, but she might find something real.

A fun, sexy friends-to-lovers romcom, perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton's Good Material and Yomi Adegoke's The List

‘A romcom for messy girls everywhere’ STYLIST
‘Raw, funny and sexy. When Harry Met Sally for the club smoking area' RÓISÍN LANIGAN
'Annie Lord is a breath of fresh air' YOMI ADEGOKE

© Annie Lord 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

Critics Review

A delicious romcom… Funny, tender and insightful, The Project cracks open the dynamics and dilemmas inherent to modern heterosexual dating
VOGUE
Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent
Dolly Alderton, author of GOOD MATERIAL
Searingly honest, always hilarious and the type of hopeless romantic the world needs right now, Annie Lord is a breath of fresh air
Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST
A joyful novel which shoots for the heart
Nicola Dinan, author of BELLIES
A defining romcom for the millennial British woman. These characters are people I felt I already knew. Their world was one I recognised but rendered with unique brilliance by Annie Lord’s keen observations of modern romance
Shon Faye, author of LOVE IN EXILE
Funny, knowing, and full of heart - this is a modern romcom where London feels vivid and alive... It's like if Helen Fielding wrote The Taming of The Shrew
William Rayfet Hunter, author of SUNSTRUCK
Raw, funny and sexy. When Harry Met Sally for the club smoking area. Nora Ephron if she loved ketamine and sambuca
Róisín Lanigan, author of I WANT TO GO HOME BUT I'M ALREADY THERE
The Project was impossible to peel out of my hands. The read a generation of women have been waiting for
Moya Lothian-McLean
Author Annie Lord
Narrator Emma Appleton
Duration 11 hours and 51 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529970524
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Romance: friends to lovers, Romantic comedies
Availability AU, GB, IE

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