The cure for online
dates, blind dates, and other disasters.
LOVE BY THE BOOK
A Novel
by
Melissa Pimentel
“For fans
of Sex in the City, Pimentel offers a fictionalized account of a
real-life experiment in dating.”
— Kirkus Review
“HUGELY enjoyable! Great fun, a gripping
read, and very touching.”
— New York Times bestselling
author Marian Keyes
“A fun romantic comedy (or
tragedy, depending on the day). If you love “The Mindy Project”, imagine Mindy
in London surrounded by British hotties, fabulous friends, and way too much bad
dating advice. A wonderful debut by Melissa Pimentel. Can’t wait to dive into
her next novel.”
—Kim Gruenenfelder, author of
A Total Waste of Makeup
The dating
scene is rough. Even with more people staying single past their 20s and a new
dating app hitting the market practically daily, finding a relatively normal
person who wants to spend time with you can seem impossible. Lauren Cunningham,
the beautiful and intelligent—yet cursed in the dating department—heroine in
Melissa Pimentel’s debut novel, LOVE BY THE BOOK (A Penguin Paperback Original;
On Sale: February 3, 2015; ISBN: 978-0-14-312728-4; $16.00), faces these
challenges head-on as she navigates the London dating scene with hilarious
consequences.
Lauren moved to
London from the States after a breakup to live the fabulous single life she’d
been missing. Her ideal love life consists of fantastic, regular sex
with no strings attached. But men just don’t understand it - it’s obviously a
clever trick to trap them - and run for the hills as soon as they can find
their boxers. By using
seminal dating guides like The Game, The Art of Dating, and Not
Tonight, Mr. Right (or as Lauren likes to call it Close Your Legs, Open
Your Heart) and the men in her life as test subjects, Lauren tries to
discover if the tips in these books will get a guy to call her after the
infamous third date. Realizing that dating isn’t as simple as just swiping
right, Lauren navigates her way through this perilous world with the help of
her guides, and might end up finding the exact thing she’s not looking
for…
LOVE BY THE
BOOK is based on
Melissa’s own experience with the same experiment in which, in her words, she
“spent [her] time trawling the London dating scene for clean, non-sociopathic
sexual partners and blogging about it” at www.lovebythebook.co.uk. With one of the most accurate
portrayals of 21st century dating—Bridget Jones for those not
dreaming of a ring—LOVE BY THE BOOK is the perfect Valentine’s Day read,
even if you refuse to recognize it as a holiday.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melissa
Pimentel
grew up in a small town in Massachusetts in a house without cable and therefore
much of her childhood was spent watching 1970s British comedy on PBS. At
twenty-two, she made the move to London to do an MA in Modern Literature at
University College London. She has lived there happily for ten years, though
she still adamantly refuses to eat a scotch egg. Before meeting her fiancé, she
spent much of her time trawling the London dating scene for clean,
non-sociopathic sexual partners and blogging about it, which became the
inspiration for her first novel. These days, she spends much of her time
reading in the various pubs of Stoke Newington and engaging in a long-standing
emotional feud with their disgruntled cat, Welles. She works in publishing.
LOVE BY THE BOOK ▪ Melissa Pimentel
Penguin Books ▪ $16.00▪
On-sale date: February 3, 2015 ▪ ISBN: 978-0-14-312728-4
Also available as an
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