SuitabookFirst love and romantic expectations
Hildy has little dating experience before meeting Connor, and her summer becomes a first-love story that differs from the simple patterns suggested by songs and films.
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Dyan Sheldon - Author
Take it as a first-love story with a humorous, self-aware presentation, while noting that its romance is described as complicated rather than simply idealised.
"Hildy has only had two-and-a-half dates in her whole life, and she isn't counting the half. It's starting to look as if she's never going to have a third date, or be kissed, or know a boy who is more than just a friend. Then, on an ordinary day, she meets Connor of the melt-that-ice-cap smile-- and a summer that was going to be ordinary as toast turns into Hildy's summer of love. But love for Hildy is a little more complicated than the songs and movies have led her to believe. It's not so much girl-meets-boy-and loses-her-heart as boy-meets-girl-and-loses-his-mind. Part cautionary tale and part romantic comedy, Dyan Sheldon's wry, diary-style novel weighs in on all ends of the relationship scale in a story of first love."--
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Hildy has little dating experience before meeting Connor, and her summer becomes a first-love story that differs from the simple patterns suggested by songs and films.
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