Book 80, Countries 86 & 87 – Wales and England

I think I Love You by Allison Pearson – first published 2010

With only one book to go to the end of my reading journey I realised I still had 2 countries to visit.  This was the only book I could find in a hurry, which was set in both Wales and England. 

The first part of the book is set in a South Wales town somewhere near Swansea in 1974.  Petra and her friends are all mad about David Cassidy and avid readers of the Essential David Cassidy Magazine.  Unknown to them a man named Bill, who works in an office in London, is paid to write articles for the magazine, as if he were David Cassidy.  Petra and her friend Sharon enter the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz run by the magazine.   24 years later, after the death of her mother, Petra finds a letter that her mother had hidden from her saying that they had won the competition.  Petra rings the publishers of the magazine and although it is no longer published Bill still works for them and they agree to pay for Petra and Sharon to fly to Las Vegas with Bill to meet David Cassidy.  An agreeable feel-good story.  7/10

24th November 2012