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Title: Welcome To Your  Life

Author: Bethany Rutter

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Publication Date: 31st March 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

This is a love story…

Serena Mills should be at her wedding. But she’s not.

Instead, she’s eating an ice cream sundae and drinking an obscenely large glass of wine in a Harvester off the M25.

Everyone thinks she’s gone mad.

She’s left the man everyone told her she was ‘so lucky’ to find – because Serena wants to find love. Real love. A love she deserves – not one she should just feel grateful for.

So, she escapes to the big city and sets herself a challenge: 52 weeks. 52 dates. 52 chances to find love. It should be easy, right?

 

A story about love, forging your own path, and falling head over heels – with yourself.

Such an incredibly enjoyable debut adult novel from Bethany Rutter. 

This had me smiling and absorbed in the life of Serena, right from page one. It's the story of Serena starting to come to terms with her body image, and of potentially finding love, after jilting her fiancee, about an hour before the last possible minute! 

Her  new work colleague Nicole has a larger than life personality and I loved all scenes she was in, and her attitude towards life was great.  And she had a storyline that is potentially and sadly relatable to as a larger woman. 

I kept wanting to slap Serena and tell her, that she is wonderful and that weight doesn't come into how attractive you are to men, and for her self esteem to be better, but as I say this was a self discovery journey as much as anything else. 

It's also a look at dating in London for the plus sized woman, and I loved the variety of men she meets, and in some of the circumstances too.  And on the odd occasion there is a mention of sex, it was written fantastically! 

I had a fabulous time reading this book, and have already told my mum she will love it, when I get her a copy! It's just my sort of book, and brilliantly entertaining with it! 

Thank you to Harper and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.