Just Like You: A Novel

ISBN: 0593191382

Author: Hornby, Nick

Condition: Used

[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy. -The Boston GlobeA provocative yet sweet romantic comedy. -People, Best of Fall 2020From the beloved author of Dickens and Prince, About A Boy, and High Fidelity, this warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expectedLucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script shed been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, shes a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isnt exactly looking for love-shes more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. Its not a match anyone one could have predicted. Hes of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person-someone you didnt see coming.