We meet Lucy Green just before her thirtieth birthday. She's hoping to land a new client for her publicity agency, while vying for a promotion, and also hoping her boyfriend of two years will propose. Instead, her boyfriend stands her up at a bar the evening before her birthday, which leads to Lucy talking to Adam, the bartender. He fixes her a special birthday drink before she leaves. The next morning, she finds that she cannot tell a lie, which leads to panic. Her job depends on her massaging the truth in order to work with her bosses and to save the careers of her clients. Not to mention getting along with her mother.
Was the drink magical? Maybe?? Most of the book flies past in the course of this one day – her birthday – and shows what happens when Lucy tells only the truth. This includes allowing her body to show its own truths by not subjecting herself to uncomfortable clothes and too much makeup in order to fit some ideal of how a person in her position should look (despite the social discomfort it causes).
I had to bat away my disbelief a few times, but once I decided to accept a bit of magic, I found the story to be a fast, fun trip.
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