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I couldn’t have loved this book more. Brilliantly sardonic, between these pages we will meet the literary world’s currently most interesting first-person POV protagonist, Margo Miyake — a single-minded gleefully narcissistic thirty-eight year old, whose single, overarching goal in her chaotically-controlled life is to own her dream home.

With her deep-rooted gaping lack of nurturance, Margo is a fascinating combination of raw and searing emotional need, total unflinching self-acceptance, and a ballistic drive to “better” herself.

Perfect husband. Perfect baby. Perfect home.

“The life I’ve been working so f-ing hard to build”

For Margo and her EPA lawyer husband Ian, with his “golden-boy looks” (and unexpected career sell-out to the public sector), the clock is ticking on her much-coveted baby.

But finally, (cataclysmically) Margo has found her picture-perfect family home, and in this ludicrously hot Washington DC job market, she must win it.

“I’m here to protect my dream. Nothing is more important.”

Brazen and brainy, with nerves of ice-cold steel, it’s often hard not to secretly admire Margo, who embarks on a “caper” (if we can call it that) with only one outcome allowed.

No spoilers here (you have to read this book!), — it is safe to say that in the end, (the exquisite end!) there will be only one, and that best offer will win.

A dazzling first novel, and one for a reader to savor. I look forward to reading more from this very talented author.

A great big thank you to #Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.