The Heart of the Deal, Lindsay MacMillan
The Heart of the Deal, Lindsay MacMillan
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The Heart of the Deal

Author: Lindsay MacMillan

Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs

Unabridged: 13 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022

Synopsis

Rae is in a romantic recession. The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating-app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn’t exactly Rae’s idea of romance. She considers cutting her losses, but her friends help her stay invested, boosting her spirits with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up while recapping cringe-worthy dates. And then Rae meets Dustin, a poetic soul trapped in a business suit, just like her. She starts to hear wedding bells, but Dustin’s story is a complicated one, and no amount of financial modeling can project what their future will look like. Can Rae free herself from the idea she had of what thirty was supposed to look like and let love breathe on its own timeline? Or is she too conditioned to stay on the “right track” to follow her unpaved intuition? Moving, funny, and timely, The Heart of the Deal is the story of one woman’s reckoning with what success really is in a city, an industry, and a relationship whose low lows continually challenge the enchantment of the high highs.

About Lindsay MacMillan

Lindsay MacMillan is a writer, businesswoman, and hopelessly hopeful romantic. After growing up in Michigan in the land of cows, cornfields, and kindness, she graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. She is now a vice president at Goldman Sachs and has worked in both New York City and London. The Heart of the Deal is her first published novel.

About Rachel L. Jacobs

Rachel L. Jacobs is an experienced actor, singer, and voice artist based in Los Angeles. She received her BA in theater from Oberlin and did intensive studies with the American Conservatory Theatre, the National Theater Institute, and Shakespeare & Company. A former resident performer with the California Theatre Center, she has dubbed live-action shows, voiced characters for cartoons, and narrated numerous audiobook titles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren on May 27, 2024

This book was stunning. The writing was lovely and heart wrenchingly REAL. The book is about Rae, and follows her from her 25th birthday to her 30th as she navigates her life, and as her hopes and dreams for the future (career, friends, romantic relationships) change and grow. If you are looking for......more

Goodreads review by Emma on February 19, 2022

At first I was upset with this book for having a pink cover. It felt like it was making the book try to be a fluffy rom com, which it's not. But in the end, I liked the cover. Because who says deep things can't be pink? I needed to re-assess my judgments here, and I think a lot of readers will need......more

Goodreads review by Kate on October 26, 2021

I struggled putting this book down. Lindsay MacMillian does an amazing job showing Raes growth throughout the years. I found myself relating to the main character in multiple scenarios especially with putting a time stamp on my expectations in life. This is more than just a love story it’s about the......more

Goodreads review by Debra on February 19, 2022

This book was such a gift. I'm a woman in my fifties, and I used to work in the corporate world in NYC during my twenties and thirties. This book brought me back there to all the highs and lows, and it also transported me into the present-day dating and corporate world and was both entertaining and......more

Goodreads review by Donna on October 01, 2021

The story Rae and her best friend and roommate Ellen live in a “penthouse” up a zillion steps in the West Village in Manhattan. They both work gruelling hours in their finance job. Although Rae spends her days working at an investment bank, she dreams of being a poet and every opportunity to see the......more

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