The Friend Zone Experiment

Come visit Zen Cho’s London – sometimes glittering, often grey – where expats, activists and entrepreneurs discover how love complicates life and life complicates love. Pragmatic, yet deeply satisfying, The Friend Zone Experiment is for every person who believes they can fight for a happy-ever-after on their own termsKaren Lord, author of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 Longlisted The Blue, Beautiful World

A messy – yet beautiful – second-chance romance. Zen Cho writes vivid characters in difficult situations, and the hero and heroine’s history is deftly woven into their present-day interactions. It’s a compelling read, and I devoured itJackie Lau, author of Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

Cho is a marvel. Her deft observations go down like a charm, but their emotional power will leave you deeply moved . . . The Friend Zone Experiment is a story so intensely real that you’ll wonder later if it happened to someone you knewShelley Parker-Chan

A heartwarming second-chance romance, written with a sometimes sly sense of humour. With complicated family relationships, ominous shadows from the past and the cameos of south-east Asian food and beverages which are delectably familiar to me. A sparkling readEve Shi