The Project
Will be published approx. on 16. July 2026
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-78730-546-5 (ISBN)
Description
Modern dating's a mess. Unfortunately, so are they.
'A romcom for messy girls everywhere' STYLIST
'Raw, funny and sexy. When Harry Met Sally for the club smoking area' ROISIN LANIGAN
'Annie Lord is a breath of fresh air' YOMI ADEGOKE
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
'Delicious...the sort of sticky, summery book you'll want to curl up with' VOGUE
Readers 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!' *****
'A romcom for messy girls everywhere' STYLIST
'Raw, funny and sexy. When Harry Met Sally for the club smoking area' ROISIN LANIGAN
'Annie Lord is a breath of fresh air' YOMI ADEGOKE
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
'Delicious...the sort of sticky, summery book you'll want to curl up with' VOGUE
Readers 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!' *****
Reviews / Votes
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 -- Roisin 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-McLeanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78730-546-5 (9781787305465)
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Annie Lord
The Project
The hot summer romcom from Vogue's dating columnist and author of Notes on a Heartbreak
E-Book
approx. 07/2026
Vintage Digital
€12.99
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Person
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.