Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The

As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane manoeuvres her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of the workplace. She reluctantly succumbs to the questionable advice offered in a pop-psych book entitled How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right. Accompanied at every turn by the ear-whispering authors (who bear an uncanny resemblance to two popular, hateful high school acquaintances) Jane makes a series of dating decisions that lead her in the right direction - but for the wrong reasons. Wise, poignant, and full of the kind of laugh-out-loud insight you just have to share with your best friend, this is an original voice telling a universal story through characters we all love and recognise.