Seven Rules for a Perfect Marriage : The funny and relatable summer read about long-term love and happy endings

Summary: Seven Rules for a Perfect Marriage is a funny and poignant celebration of long-term love, asking what happens when Happily Ever After doesn’t always look so happy. It looks like Jessica and Jack have it all. Their social media accounts show them glamorous, happy and sickeningly in love. They even landed a book deal to share their seven rules for a perfect marriage - an instant bestseller, of course. But behind the scenes it's not so simple. Jessica is determined to make a success of her business and has stopped making time for Jack. Meanwhile Jack is learning that he hates the life of an Instagram husband. In a bid to reboot their relationship, they decide to go back to basics and follow their own rules. But they’re about to learn that there is simply no such thing as perfect, and, in fact, there might be a lot more to making a marriage work than just following the rules… This debut love story will be a big hit for summer reading in 2025.Rebecca Reid's love stories will all follow this ethos: there is always a happy ending, it just might not be the one you had in mind.This is pitch-led commercial fiction at its best, structured in seven parts - each showcasing one of Jessica and Jack's rules - readers will laugh and cry and press the novel into their friends' hands.SEVEN RULES reads like the love child of Beth O'Leary and Mhairi McFarlane. This pitch-perfect novel will appeal to fans of THE FLATSHARE & BETWEEN US as well as anything by Lucy Vine.We have World all languages rights and this was easily one of the buzziest books of the fair for us at London 2024. Expect deal news to come in thick and fast after submission.Author Bio: Rebecca Reid is a writer, commentator and former digital editor of Grazia. As a journalist, she writes a column for the i and contributes regularly to the Sunday Times, Glamour, Cosmo and Stylist. As a commentator, she regularly contributes to Woman's Hour, Jeremy Vine and Good Morning Britain. Her first play is due to open in London in 2026. Rebecca has previously written five books (four thrillers, one non-fiction) but after almost a decade of journalism about sex and relationships – not to mention the demise of her own marriage – she finally felt ready to pen a love story.