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The Project
  • Published: 16 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781787305465
  • Imprint: Harvill
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $49.99

The Project

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Tr. Paperback
14 July 2026
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16 July 2026
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16 July 2026
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16 Aug 2026
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The hot summer romcom from Vogue dating columnist and author of Notes on Heartbreak, Annie Lord

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.
  • Published: 16 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781787305465
  • Imprint: Harvill
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $49.99

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