"Funny, smart and memorable, this contemporary romance offers a lucid example of how humanity can endure amid a daily churn of horrendous news." —The New York Times
"A delight to behold . . . fresh, funny." —The Wall Street Journal
"Stanley writes beautifully about the tension among wants, needs, and desires, especially in motherhood. . . . A tender and realistic cataloging of a relationship as its shifts, changes, and grows over time." —Kirkus
"Consider Yourself Kissed nails the complex emotions of motherhood. . . . Readers want different things from romance, and real and raw are two of them. Consider Yourself Kissed expertly layers the light and heavy elements of life, with a main character who is quick-witted and quietly perceptive, giving hope that a fire between two people may just survive many storms." —The Washington Post
"This summer’s rom-com must-read. . . . A sparkily enjoyable romantic comedy that, like One Day and Normal People, leaves you feeling bereft at the final page." —Sunday Times
“[A] warm and affirming literary romance.” —Vogue Australia
"A deeply moving emotional examination of motherhood and stepmotherhood. . . . Consider Yourself Kissed is a novel that enjoys people, that likes them, and this intelligent goodwill saturates the pages. Buy this for yourself and then buy a few more copies for everyone you know." —Saturday Paper
"A simultaneously heart-wrenching and heartwarming novel about what happens when you put your own career aspirations aside to support your partner’s and raise a family." —Chatelaine
"Consider yourself kissed — and hugged and understood — by Jessica Stanley's smart, oh-so-relatable tale of a woman who seems to have assembled all the pieces of a happy life but feels like she's lost herself in the process. . . . Stanley's novel is rich, and her cleverness irrefutable." —NPR
"Written with an effortless balance of humor and heart, Consider Yourself Kissed will move you." —TODAY
"Fans of Jojo Moyes will be drawn into this emotionally candid deep dive into a long-term relationship." —Booklist
"So real . . . very, very funny." —Elle
"As warm as a David Nicholls novel." —Stylist
"A surefire summer hit." —Mail on Sunday
"Oh, how I loved and empathized with Coralie! Consider Yourself Kissed is funny, tender, authentic and incredibly moving." —Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things
"Beautifully written, wise, funny, moving. Deftly fuses the personal and the political. A proper grown-up love story." —Beth Morrey, author of Saving Missy
"Immersive, truly funny, brilliantly smart and full of lovable characters, Consider Yourself Kissed is a joy. In her novel spanning ten years of one woman’s life, Jessica Stanley balances domesticity and politics, contemporary British history and the pursuit of love—and she makes it all seem effortless. I cried when I read the last page, simply because I was bereft that it was over." —Claire Dederer, author of Monsters
"Consider Yourself Kissed is a smart literary love story and an absorbing family drama. Jessica Stanley follows her characters over the years as they make their way in the private, intricate, fragile world they create for themselves, and in the always-changing larger world. This is a deeply appealing and winning novel." —Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
"Utterly brilliant—so astonishingly clever, but with a core of love. It's generous, it's hopeful, it's one of the very best grown-up love stories I have ever read. It wears its smartness so lightly, but it captures the strangeness of the past few years perfectly. I could not have adored it more." —Daisy Buchanan, author of Careering
"Consider Yourself Kissed is a tender, layered novel and one of the sharpest portrayals of marriage and motherhood I've ever read. It's also warm and clever and funny. I completely inhaled it. As with all my favourite novels, I wished I could read it forever." —Alice Robinson, author of If You Go
"Consider Yourself Kissed is an incisive story about the complicated task of loving and being loved. There's so much in this smart book—about class and identity, family and work. Stanley's idiosyncratic characters are the heartbeat of this novel. I could see them, full-bodied, jumping out of the page, interesting and strange and, by the end, I missed them all." —Erin Riley, author of A Real Piece of Work
"Jessica Stanley captures all the quiet ecstasy and devastation of being a lover, a mother, a woman in the world, and wondering what is left over for yourself. In Coralie's endless labour to do everything right and try to write, I felt achingly seen. I want to hand this gorgeous book to every mum I know with a hug." —Clare Fletcher, author of Love Match
"I absolutely raced through this novel which I found so smart, funny and true to life. One of those books you'll want to give all your friends once you've finished." —Claire Powell, author of At the Table
"The platonic ideal of reading experiences! So funny, so smart and deliciously well observed! A real treat." —Lizzy Stewart, author of Alison
"A beautiful, harrowing, wild ride through everyday life, Consider Yourself Kissed is a love song to women everywhere." —Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script
"Warm, funny, clever and real, Consider Yourself Kissed is at once a charming romance, a social history and a profoundly authentic study of the complex work of love. A wonderful novel." —Eleanor Elliott Thomas, author of The Opposite of Success
"A love story like no other: charming, warm, heartfelt and funny but with a truly razor-like authenticity." —Liane Moriarty, author of Here One Moment
"An exhilarating read, a marvel of a book." —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind
"Ringingly original and just absurdly good." —Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich
"I was grinning like an idiot for the first forty pages, and crying for the next forty." —Emma Healey, author of Whistle in the Dark
"I read Consider Yourself Kissed with my hand on my heart, and now that it’s done, I want to be right back inside its pages. A charming, emotional and feminist tour de force, this is one of the most delightful and relatable books I’ve read about modern womanhood, the evolution of love and the way we show up in the world. A true treasure of a novel. I need more from Jessica Stanley!" —Ashley Audrain, author of The Push
"I’m annoyed I didn’t write this book myself." —Madeleine Gray, author of Green Dot
"Fabulous. . . . It's clever, joyful, familiar and awkward and so funny." —Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina
"Sweet and tender." —Pandora Sykes
"This book is perfection." —India Knight
"Clever and contemporary." —The Guardian
One of the Guardian’s Five Best Romance Books of 2025
"Clever and contemporary." —The Guardian
"A delightfully grounded romance." —The Guardian
