The Friend Zone Experiment
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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 Gohās life looks perfect. Sheās thirty and beautiful, running a glamorousāand successfulāfashion company in London, and dating a hot pop star.
Until sheās 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 Reneeās 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 fatherās approval would mean everything - if she can fight off the competition of her unpredictable older brothers.
Just as sheās 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 canāt bank on each otherā¦
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āZen Choās 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 readā¦ Choās humour and observations on modern relationships offers a fun and easy read.ā
āGlamourāA sweet slow-burning romance.ā
āHeatāCho is a marvel. Her deft observations go down like a charm, but their emotional power will leave you deeply movedā¦ The Friend Zone Experiment is a story so intensely real that youāll wonder later if it happened to someone you knew.ā
āShelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the SunāA lovely, tender romance, beautifully threaded through real world concerns that had me engrossed. I savoured every delicately written moment.ā
āCharlotte Stein, author of When Grumpy Met SunshineāReminiscent of classic K-dramas with a touch more realityā¦ Easily one of my top reads of the year!ā
āSimone Soltani, author of Cross the LineāI haven't seen an author weave romantic comedy and corporate complexity together quite this flawlessly. It was giving āSuccession with swooningā vibes, which I LOVED! ā¦Hilarious, insightful and hard to put down.ā
āJ. F. Murray, author of Hitched and FlingāThis book has it all; a touch of glam, romance and a bit of sibling rivalry - all slotted into an vibrant love letter to London!ā
āLola 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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- Description
- Praise
- About the Author
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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 Gohās life looks perfect. Sheās thirty and beautiful, running a glamorousāand successfulāfashion company in London, and dating a hot pop star.
Until sheās 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 Reneeās 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 fatherās approval would mean everything - if she can fight off the competition of her unpredictable older brothers.
Just as sheās 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 canāt bank on each otherā¦
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āZen Choās 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 readā¦ Choās humour and observations on modern relationships offers a fun and easy read.ā
āGlamourāA sweet slow-burning romance.ā
āHeatāCho is a marvel. Her deft observations go down like a charm, but their emotional power will leave you deeply movedā¦ The Friend Zone Experiment is a story so intensely real that youāll wonder later if it happened to someone you knew.ā
āShelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the SunāA lovely, tender romance, beautifully threaded through real world concerns that had me engrossed. I savoured every delicately written moment.ā
āCharlotte Stein, author of When Grumpy Met SunshineāReminiscent of classic K-dramas with a touch more realityā¦ Easily one of my top reads of the year!ā
āSimone Soltani, author of Cross the LineāI haven't seen an author weave romantic comedy and corporate complexity together quite this flawlessly. It was giving āSuccession with swooningā vibes, which I LOVED! ā¦Hilarious, insightful and hard to put down.ā
āJ. F. Murray, author of Hitched and FlingāThis book has it all; a touch of glam, romance and a bit of sibling rivalry - all slotted into an vibrant love letter to London!ā
āLola 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.
