The Remarkable Rise of Amanda Appleby

When Amanda Appleby catches her husband messing with the belly dancer hired for his fiftieth birthday party, her once-perfectly curated life crashes down. With her marriage in ruins and little money from the property settlement, Amanda finds herself fifty, divorced, and broke. Amanda retreats to her family's charming cottage in Cornwall to regroup and hits on a way to make money. She writes a book about how to renovate and sell a house. Peppered with cynical tips from Amanda's own failed marriage, the book goes viral. Hailed as the "Marie Kondo for the Unhappily Married Woman," Amanda is thrust into stardom. Invited as a contestant on a dating show, she meets Jack Walker, the show's crabby—but surprisingly kind-hearted—scriptwriter and Amanda discovers that maybe romance isn't dead after all. But when she's enlisted as the public face of a man-hating site, suddenly Amanda's success turns toxic, threatening to derail both her career and her newfound relationship. But Amanda is no longer the dutiful wife she once was. Can the woman Amanda has become find it in herself to keep her star rising?