Bøger af Lauren Mechling

A one-of-a-kind, feminist high-concept novel that imagines a world where women are given secret memos; blueprints for success to help them live their best lives.

Have you ever wondered, 'What if?'. If you had the chance for a do-over, would you take it?35-year-old Jenny Green is dreading her upcoming university reunion. While her friends are killing it professionally and personally, Jenny is stuck in a dead-end job and a dead-end relationship. She feels like she didn't get the memo... and, as it turns out, she didn't. Literally. As Jenny gets ready for the unbearably humiliating trip to face her university peers, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green: please collect your memo. Hidden among her old campus, there's a female-led organisation providing secret memos to students. While men have the patriarchy to help them live their best lives, the memos serve as a blueprint for success for women. Gifted with a second shot at her dream life, Jenny travels back through time to fix her worst mistakes, but at what cost? Ultimately, she has to decide whether the pursuit of perfection is worth the personal sacrifice - before it's too late.A totally unputdownable, hilarious and beyond-relatable page-turner about the friendships, loves and small moments of joy that don't make headlines in a world where competition is everything. Perfect for fans of Maria Semple, Dolly Alderton and Monica Heisey.

After the collapse of her parents' marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer father in New York. Too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life, Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin School?an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classes?leaves her spinning. When Sam, her childhood best friend, bets her she can't befriend the ?cool girls,? Mimi accepts the challenge, only to discover that social climbing in New York is no easy task. Fitting in with the blond, all-American popular girls back in Texas was nothing compared to joining Baldwin's clique of raccoon-eyed waifs. Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, all with secrets and dysfunctions that put her own domestic worries to shame, Mimi finds herself in one bizarre situation to the next?a fake-ID deli, a topless bar, a jacuzzi in Trump Tower?and in the position of winning a bet that threatens to make her lose sight of herself. A coming-of-age story about friendship and betrayal, about brutal honesty and its consequences, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber is a novel with heart and a wicked sense of humor.