A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances By Steph Vizard

What happens when the man who broke your heart reappears just before your wedding?

The new romantic comedy from award-winning author Steph Vizard for fans of Beth O’Leary, Mhairi McFarlane and Lizzy Dent.

To Do List

1. Replace decapitated groom cake topper

2. Complete twenty-page questionnaire for second-choice celebrant

3. Break family curse

4. Ignore ex-boyfriend / current client

Rebecca, a super-smart consultant, is determined to defy the family marriage curse, which claims no woman marries their first fiance, and prove that Matt is The One.

Although the wedding planning lurches from one disaster to the next and she has to steer a major work project before the big day, Rebecca is sure she can stay on top of things. That is until Alex – the ex who dramatically broke her heart at Oxford University – reappears in the boardroom as her new client. How dare he still be as infuriatingly clever and hot as before? And since when did he start wearing shirts with collars?

As Rebecca’s past and present collide, she realises her choices can’t be resolved with a trusty pros and cons list. Before she makes it down the aisle, she’ll have to finally come to terms with the age-old head or heart?

Praise for A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances

‘Get ready to feel deeply and fall in love hard. A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances is as smart as it is swoony.’ Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus

‘Charmingly brilliant and brilliantly charming’ Jodi McAlister

‘A fun, perfectly executed romcom that plays cleverly with the idea of missed connections and what-ifs … Vizard’s characters are intelligent thirty-somethings whose personalities work against the stereotype of the emotionally naive or unstable female protagonist so often seen in coming-of-age romances. Readers who enjoy multilayered plots that extend beyond the novel’s central relationship will enjoy the triumph of friendship in Vizard’s sophomore novel … Readers of Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez and Mhairi McFarlane will be swept away by A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances, an Australian romcom that deserves the bestseller status of its international counterparts.’ Books+Publishing

‘I haven’t been this gripped by a love triangle since Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver. Smart, sweet and oh so satisfying’ Karina May, author of That Island Feeling

‘Steph Vizard once again pulls off a highwire high concept mash-up of delectable romance tropes – love triangle, second chance, A CURSE – and grounds it with deeply human, loveable characters. Think Richard Curtis, via Melbourne, with a dash of Oxford glamour and lens-flared young love. This is a sparkling, cinematic and satisfying modern romance, deftly written.’ Clare Fletcher