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The Project
  • Published: 16 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529970524
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

The Project

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Tr. Paperback
14 July 2026
EBook
16 July 2026
Audiobook
16 July 2026
Hardback
16 Aug 2026
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There are no good men left: they're all taken. So Daisy and her best friend Maya start 'The Project' - to transform their useless friend James into a good guy. Daisy takes James on a journey of discovery. But which one of them will change more?

When Daisy wakes up next to James – the annoying black sheep of their friendship group - she can’t believe what she’s done.

The problem is there are no good men left. At least, that’s what Daisy and her best friend Maya think. They’re all taken. Even the average ones have beautiful, seemingly perfect girlfriends.

Fed up with modern dating, Daisy and Maya decide to start 'The Project' to create a good guy out of some frankly embarrassing raw material. And who better to start with than James, the man who once told her he's never cried in his entire life and sounded proud of that fact?

Embarking on a series of lessons, from pretentious art exhibitions to feminist book clubs, clothes shopping trips and messy house parties, Daisy takes James on a journey of discovery. But which one of them will change more?
  • Published: 16 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529970524
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Annie Lord

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.
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Praise for The Project

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

A joyful novel which shoots for the heart

Nicola Dinan, author of BELLIES

A delicious romcom… Funny, tender and insightful, The Project cracks open the dynamics and dilemmas inherent to modern heterosexual dating

VOGUE

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

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

The Project was impossible to peel out of my hands. The read a generation of women have been waiting for

Moya Lothian-McLean

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

Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent

Dolly Alderton, author of GOOD MATERIAL