Fortune Cookies

Sometimes you just have to do things that don’t make sense: that is at least how it seems to Jana, who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend – on her 31st birthday of all days! – and suddenly needs consolation rather than congratulation. A few hours – and a few drinks – later, Jana decides to place her future in the lap of the gods. Writing a text message with the words “What can I do to be happy? SHE”, she sends it off to a random number. If she doesn’t get an answer then she will know that real love has no place in her life. Just a few hundred yards away as the crow flies, Roland – part-time postman – is standing on a bridge wondering whether to jump. He has enough reasons – his dream career as author is going nowhere fast; in fact, when it comes to it, nothing is really going for him. Just as he is about to take the decisive step, his mobile rings – with a very strange text message. Acting on impulse he climbs down from the edge and fires back a reply: “I don’t know. Why don’t we try to find out together? HE”. Jana is all for it. Roland, of course, is too. It all looks so simple – until Roland manages to lose his mobile just before the long-awaited first date, and Jana, helpless victim of unhappy coincidences, gets involved with the wrong man… And this is just the beginning of this wonderfully light summer love story about false kisses and real feelings (guaranteed without the otherwise obligatory gay best friend of the heroine and other such clichés)! If you are a woman who hasn’t yet lost your faith in Love with a capital “L”, then you will love this book. And it will make the perfect present for any lovesick friend! You will also love this book if you enjoy the novels – also in this series - of Gernot Gricksch; if you like upbeat women’s stories; if you find women who champion being single suspicious; and if you prefer sitting and talking for hours with your best friend to dragging yourself through boring clubs. Whether you have found it or are still looking – if you believe in true love, this book is for you. 326 pages, 978-3-426-62976-5 January 2006