Swiping Right (and other disasters)
This is the first book in the Second Chance Chronicles (although all the stories can be read as standalones).
When Kiera’s wife leaves her, she has to rebuild her life. At 41, with a new home in Kings Heath, a diverse and vibrant part of Birmingham, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
Encouraged by friends, she tries online dating. She soon comes up against the quirks and pitfalls of swiping right and left on potential matches, discovering as she goes that it’s best to avoid people using animal filter profile pictures. Tinder introduces her to more women than she ever expected, including one who is definitely not over her ex and another whose suggestive texts get Kiera into trouble at work.
Seymour, the owner of her favourite coffee shop, develops an ingenious escape code – if a date is going badly and Kiera orders an affogato, that means she needs rescuing. But would Seymour prefer it if Kiera ordered more than a fancy coffee next time? Could love in fact be closer to home than Kiera thinks?
And could everything be ruined by Kiera’s ex-wife turning up and sucking her back into her old life?
Swiping Right (and other disasters) is a hilarious award-winning sapphic romance full of mishaps, laughs and unexpected adventure. Perfect for fans of Clare Lydon, Casey McQuiston and Clare Ashton.
Swiping Right (and other disasters) won the 2024 Lesfic Bard Award for Romance.
This books features popular lesbian and WLW romance tropes including second chances, friends to lovers, love later in life and online dating. Set in the United Kingdom you'll find all the feels and all the laughs.
What the readers say
Amazon review:
Five Stars!
Fresh from her recent divorce, 41 year old hospital administrator Keira, plunges back into the murky depths of the modern dating scene which inevitably involves downloading a popular dating app. The storyline follows the various ‘adventures’ that follow whenever she swipes right, very few of which that prove to be positive. Most of her dates start at the Jam Pot cafe, a place she regularly frequents, & which is owned by the younger, gorgeous, friendly Seymour, who devises a clever scheme for Keira to escape any dates that are going wrong. When Keira ends up getting ghosted on a date that’s the end of the apps for her, & after a solo trip to Barcelona decides she doesn’t need anyone else in her life to make her feel complete. However, Kiera begins to see Seymour in a new light when she reveals she is gay & single herself. Was the future Kiera was looking for online right under her nose all the time? Or will a desperate plea from her ‘away with the fairies’ ex return to ruin everything?
Filled with shades of light & dark this was very enjoyable, very involving read, with very believable characters & incidents. As someone who divorced in their 40s myself it was very relatable, having to put oneself back into the dating shark tank is scary. For me it was an added bonus that it was set in a suburban district of England’s second city, Birmingham. Most U.K. based stories tend to centre around London or the more picturesque parts of the country. The Brummie accent is one of my favourites and it was fun to read parts of the dialogue with that in my head. Look forward to reading book 2 in the series.