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The Setup

By: Lizzy Dent
Narrated by: Anna Gilthorpe
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From the author of The Summer Job comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming story about one woman’s impulsive fib that jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself.

She has a plan. Fate has other ideas.

The last place very average 31-year-old Mara Williams thought she’d be is on a solo vacation impersonating her fortune teller when she finally meets the one. Josef, a gorgeous Austrian cellist, sits down for a reading and before she knows it, she’s telling him his destiny will be sitting in a pub in the English seaside town of Broadgate on the last Friday of August. And her name is Mara.

Enter Project Mara: three months to turn herself into the stylish, confident woman she’s always hoped to be. Meanwhile, the crumbling, formerly glamorous beachside pool club where she works is under threat and her eccentric colleagues enlist her help to save it, just as a handsome new housemate casts doubts on her ideas about “the one”. Can Mara pull off the transformation of a lifetime? And by summer’s end, will she know who is her destiny?

©2022 Lizzy Dent (P)2022 Penguin Audio
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Rushed ending

Overall a pleasant story. Immature main character- would categorize this as new adult. Ending felt very rushed. There wasn’t a big cliffhanger or anything. It just stopped in a weird way.

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