I Think I Love You

Wildly witty, clever and touching, with a gorgeous and compelling twist, I THINK I LOVE YOU asks what happens when the man you thought you loved turns out to be somebody else entirely...In her bestselling debut, I Don't Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson spoke to millions of working mothers; in I Think I Love You her pitch-perfect ability to observe our lives, loves and relationships is on dazzling form. Meet two unforgettable friends: thirteen-year-old Petra and Sharon, stoking their dreams in 1970s Wales, and whose screams can be heard in California when they receive the midriff portion of their life-size poster of their teen idol, David Cassidy. Said midriff is stapled into the official fanzine, an almost-Bible for the girls; and they memorise David's 'letters' to his fans, hoovering up apparently insignificant details, in the hope it will help them qualify as a future Mrs Cassidy. But unbeknownst to Petra (and the thousands of other hopefuls) David's 'letters' are all penned in a grotty London office, miles from the LA set of the Partridge Family. Bill Finn, English graduate turned reluctant pop impersonator, is forced to compile the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz which Petra and Sharon enter, in the hope of winning the trip of a lifetime to meet their crush...Some twenty years later, bruised by grief and her husband's departure, Petra is living with Molly, her thirteen-year-old daughter (whose bedroom walls are papered with the new boy on the block, Leonardo DiCaprio). Petra discovers a decades-old letter addressed to her from the now defunct David Cassidy fanzine, informing her that she was the winner the Ultimate Quiz back in '74. Nearly a quarter of a century late, with her dreams in tatters, Petra decides to claim her prize. It's not long before Bill is forced to confront the obsessions of her youth with a confession of his own...