There are so many types of love, and whether you’re swimming in it or recovering from it, books can be a great way to celebrate our relationships. Here are my top 5 books for people who have ever been madly in love (or been kicked down by it!).

Puppy Love

I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson, Knopf
Wales, 1974. Two thirteen-year-old girls, Petra and Sharon, are obsessed with David Cassidy. They tackle the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz, a contest whose winners will be flown to America to meet Cassidy in person.

London, 1998. Petra is pushing forty, on the brink of divorce, and fighting with her own thirteen-year-old daughter when she discovers a dusty letter in her mother’s closet declaring her the winner of the contest she and Sharon had labored over with such hope and determination. More than twenty years later, twenty pounds heavier, bruised by grief and the disappointments of middle age, Petra reunites with Sharon for an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to meet their teen idol at last, and finds her life utterly transformed.

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