Meet Tabitha grey, a delusional woman from Topanga, California, who redefines what it ability to be a very hopeless romantic. Tabby suffers from an competitive pressure of cock-eyed optimism – no quantity of failure, embarrassment or humiliation can dent her fierce trust that actual, precise, lasting love is simply round the nook.

Where most folks imagine, fantasize and dream, Tabby says, feels and does. no matter if ready in her underwear for Harrison Ford to open the door of his inn room; stating her love, elderly 9, for Ernesto the gardener; encountering Al Pacino in a Russian bathhouse; looking ardour with a blind guy at the recommendation of a smart previous girl with dementia at her grandmother’s domestic for the aged; or sending intimate photographs to a random sexter with an it appears fascinating dick, Tabby refuses to be overwhelmed by way of her many misadventures. She has to maintain believing, simply because if she supplies up, what then? Ill-advisedly armed with the phrases of Dorothy Parker, Tabby is familiar with that her personal ferocious optimism is the single factor retaining her heart-sore, wine-swilling mom and cynical, single-mum sister from giving up on love altogether. She is their basically wish. If Tabby can locate love, then they too will believe…

In this warmly witty debut novel, Sophie Kipner takes a satirical examine the extremity of romantic desperation, and can pay wry tribute to the deep human have to carry on heroically trying to find love regardless of our manifold absurdities.