Blog Tour Review, Welcome to Your Life

Meet 2022’s biggest, boldest  

romantic comedy 

Welcome to 

Your Life 

Bethany Rutter 

31st March 2022 | Hardback £14.99 | Ebook | Audio 

52 weeks. 

52 dates. 

52 chances to find love. 

Serena Mills should be at her wedding. 

Instead, she’s eating an ice cream sundae and drinking an obscenely large glass of wine in a Harvester off the M25. 

Everyone thinks she’s gone mad. She’s jilted the man everyone told her she was ‘so lucky’ to find. But Serena wants to find love. A love she deserves – not one she should just feel grateful for. 

So, she escapes to the big city and sets herself a challenge: 52 weeks. 52 dates. 52 chances to find love. It should be easy, right? 

‘A fun and life-affirming story told with verve’- Stylist Best Books of 2022 ‘A meaningful (and funny) journey of self-love’- Glamour Best Books of 2022 

My review

This was such a fun, quick read.   As books work to be more inclusive to all, I loved that this one was focused on a plus size star.  I really connected with Serena as she went on a journey to learn to love herself.  There is a little steam and some humor to go along with her journey.  I even had a little emotion show up.  As we head into summer, I think this makes the perfect beach read.

Bethany Rutter is a writer, podcaster and plus-sized influencer. Her adult debut, Welcome To Your Life, came to life through conversations with her friends over drinks in London. Swapping stories of toe-curling online dates, workplace harassment, new crushes, fashion discoveries and workout classes, she wanted to write a heroine who turns her life upside-down just ahead of her thirtieth birthday and is plunged into the wonderful chaos of contemporary urban life. 

In her words: ‘My heroine Serena Mills makes huge decisions. She wants things for herself, she has Big Feelings, she desires people and is desired in return. And… she’s fat. Of course, so much about her story has little or nothing to do with her body, and I hope Welcome To Your Life resonates with you, whatever your body looks like and whatever  you feel towards it. This is just one story that I wanted to tell, where a fat girl gets to be the  protagonist of her own story, rather than a silly footnote in someone else’s 

Welcome To Your Life is dedicated to ‘anyone who’s ever held themselves back’ and encourages  us all to shake off our insecurities and wholeheartedly embrace everything that life has to offer.

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