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From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class and love in modern London.

From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, running a glamorous–and successful–fashion company in London, and dating a hot pop star.

Until she’s dumped. Estranged from her family in Singapore, too, happiness soon feels a world away. A chance encounter with her first love, Yap Ket Siong, makes her question what she really wants. Then Renee’s father calls from Singapore and offers her the chance to become the successor of the family business, one of the largest conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Her father’s approval would mean everything - if she can fight off the competition of her unpredictable older brothers.

Just as she’s focusing on her future and a possible move back to Singapore, sparks seriously start to fly with Ket Siong, shaking her resolve to keep him in the friend zone. But he left her heartbroken at university - will either of them dare to share their feelings the second time around? Or will family business mean they can’t bank on each other…
“Zen Cho’s The Friend Zone Experiment is a witty and heartwarming exploration of friendship and romance. This is a succession style K-drama that is perfect for a beach read… Cho’s humour and observations on modern relationships offers a fun and easy read.”
—Glamour

“A sweet slow-burning romance.”
—Heat

“Cho is a marvel. Her deft observations go down like a charm, but their emotional power will leave you deeply moved… The Friend Zone Experiment is a story so intensely real that you’ll wonder later if it happened to someone you knew.”
—Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun

“A lovely, tender romance, beautifully threaded through real world concerns that had me engrossed. I savoured every delicately written moment.”
—Charlotte Stein, author of When Grumpy Met Sunshine

“Reminiscent of classic K-dramas with a touch more reality… Easily one of my top reads of the year!”
—Simone Soltani, author of Cross the Line

“I haven't seen an author weave romantic comedy and corporate complexity together quite this flawlessly. It was giving ‘Succession with swooning’ vibes, which I LOVED! …Hilarious, insightful and hard to put down.”
—J. F. Murray, author of Hitched and Fling

“This book has it all; a touch of glam, romance and a bit of sibling rivalry - all slotted into an vibrant love letter to London!”
—Lola Jaye, author of The Attic Child
Zen Cho was born and raised in Malaysia and now lives in Birmingham. She was a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer for her short fiction and won the Crawford Award. Her debut novel, Sorcerer to the Crown, won the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Newcomer. She is also the author of The True Queen and Black Water Sister.

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The Friend Zone Experiment