It Must Be True Then: A Novel

Luci Adams

Mar 2024 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Josie Charles

About this audiobook

A funny and timeless novel from Luci Adams in the vein of Sophie Cousens and Kelly Harms featuring:

*One horrible, “bury your head under the covers” kind of day

*Two adorable children to nanny; and

*Their very hot, very single father

Daisy has realized you really can hit rock bottom when you lose your job, your boyfriend, and are estranged from your sister all at once. Seeking to claw her way out from the very definition of a bad year, her plan is to start by simply looking like she’s clawing her way out of rock bottom. On Instagram. Obviously.

But when she takes a stopgap job as a nanny to help a single father with his two young girls, being immersed in a close-knit, loving family starts to poke holes in her plan. Can making her not-so-picture-perfect life look perfect online really help her derailed career get back on track? Can it mend her relationship with her unreliable and painfully irritating sister? And can it get her back in the arms of her unbelievably beautiful and shallow ex...and as she gets closer to someone new, does she even want to?

A sparkling and bright novel of love, second chances, and finding your way in the age of ennui and influencers, It Must Be True Then is a delight for the millennial and Gen Z age.

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A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Ratings and reviews

3.5 stars. I listened to the audio version of this book narrated by Josie Charles. She did a great job with it, even including some of the shrieking of the youngest child (I'm not a fan of shrieking going on in my earbuds when I have laid down to nap). The first half or so of this book seemed overly long and slow. I really felt like it was going to take me over a week to finish. It did get better after that first half. The main character, Daisy, is a little hard to feel compassion for. Yes, she has had some really bad and unfortunate things happen all at the same time, but she brings so much of it on herself. Her problems with her sister are clearly repetitive and she's feeding into it. Her man problems are because she picked a really lousy guy and losing her job was because of her own actions. Hard to sympathize there. The story did pick up after the first half and the last twenty-five percent of it was actually very good. I loved Archie and his children. The youngest was an incredible character. I don't remember exactly how old that youngest child was, but she was definitely going on thirty and totally called things the way she saw them. I had very mixed feelings about how to rate it, but the overly long first half knocked it down some for me. Thanks to Macmillan audio for the copy. All thoughts are my own.

About the author

Luci Adams (she/her) started out working in tax before moving into copywriting, creating social posts for Apple Music, and assisting with Amazon and BBC productions at Working Title Television. She now works as an analyst at The Guardian by day and writes uproariously funny and inventive rom coms by night. Not That Kind of Ever After is her debut novel.