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After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing is a deeply funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.

Penguin by Hand is a collection comprising six of Penguin's most popular women's fiction titles of recent years, all with new and beautiful craft-inspired jackets.

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Every once in a while a novel sinks into your consciousness that bit deeper than the others. Weeks and years later, apart from recounting the plot, you're left with a feeling, a sense of its soul. It may yet be too early to tell if the The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing will be memorable, but it's soon enough to tell that it defines an epoch. Melissa Bank has written a definitive account of the journey into adulthood, a female perspective on mating and dating. Any woman born this half of the 20th century, who's enjoyed (endured?) more than one relationship with the other side will warm to this funny, frank and sensitive novel. Jane Rosenal's entrée to the world of significant relationships begins with her older brother's older woman. The bewildered teenager's naive understanding and disbelief as the relationship disintegrates before her eyes should have served as a mighty warning on the perils of the mating game. But, hey, what's a little knowledge without bitter experience? As Jane grows into, and out of, a career in publishing, so she melts into, and out of, a series of pointless affairs. Throw in a few life- shattering personal experiences along the way, a near- disastrous encounter with a self-help manual, How to Meet and Marry Mr Right, and finally, Jane learns the secret that has eluded her for so long. Elegantly written and searingly honest, Melissa Bank's debut novel is one to recommend to all your girlfriends--single or not. -- Carey Green
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This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd (The Guardian)

One of the funniest, most assured books of the year (Esther Freud)

It is, for me, a near-perfect book, one that I have pressed into the hands of several female friends and recommended on lists both solicited and not . . . it is a Great American Novel, all 274 pages of it. (Bim Adewunmi Buzzfeed)

A sexy, funny, pour-your-heart-out, champagnetingle of a read (Cosmopolitan)

Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier. (The Los Angeles Times)

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  • PublisherPenguin
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 0241973600
  • ISBN 13 9780241973608
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages288
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