On his thirtieth birthday, Dig Ryan is reunited with his first love, Delilah, after a twelve-year separation, an encounter that does not please Dig's best friend, Nadine, who calls in her own first love, Phil, to help resolve the situation, in a zany novel about friendship, romance, and growing up, by the author of Ralph's Party. Original. "How can I ignore the boy next door?" asks the old song, and the answer in this new romantic comedy from the author of the international bestseller Ralph's Party (2000) is that clearly you can't. In such books (and films, which this begs to become) the pleasure's found in watching the two school chums grown into adult best friends come to realize their life's passion is each other. This coming-of-age novel about British 30-year-olds features Nadine, a successful photographer, and Dig, an A and R man in the recording industry, whose teenage friendship was temporarily shattered by Delilah, who slithered sexily into Dig's heart, only to break it after two years. And don't bad pennies keep turning up? Delilah reappears 12 years later, disrupting the friendship of the reunited friends and turning Dig into a love-besotted idiot and Nadine into a desperately jealous woman who unearths her old college love in retaliation. You know the rest, and Jewell's latest saucy and slangy love story should entertain audiences beyond the U.K. Whitney Scott Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Lisa Jewell worked in fashion and public relations, among other fields, before writing her first novel, Ralph's Party , which became an international bestseller.