' This summer's Must-Read novel a darkly funny tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies & souls' Vogue ' An unsettling whip-smart meditation on love' Independent'A clever gripping read the dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year' Stylist Mary is out of options Estranged from her family plagued by debt & beset by chronic pain she signs up for ' The Girlfriend Experiment'
- a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who frustrated by his romantic & creative failure hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend alongside a Maternal Girlfriend a Mundane Girlfriend an Anger Girlfriend & of course an Intimacy Team Each woman has her debts & her difficulties her past loves & her secrets As Mary & the actor are drawn ever closer together the nature of the experiment changes & the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils foremost among them love