We kissed until it became necessary to stop so that we could breathe, by which time my lips were so swollen it looked like I'd been pleasuring a brillo pad. We grinned at each other again and I felt the urge to utter something brilliantly intellectual. 'Have I mentioned that I'm hopelessly in love with you?' Actress Sarah Sargeant has finally landed the perfect boyfriend. But as she leaves London for LA, Sarah finds herself morphing from the perfect girlfriend, baby voicing 'i love you's, into a nutty one who throws phones and screams a lot. Where did it all go wrong? Was it the photo of a semi-naked ex-girlfriend doing a downward dog she found in her boyfriend's filofax? Or maybe it's the steamy sex scene she films with the handsomest man in the world, ever. Laugh-out-loud funny and brutally honest, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend is the story of one woman's search for her happy ever after. It is a novel that firmly establishes Lucy Anne Holmes as one of the best writers of romantic comedy today.

ルーシー＝アン・ホームズが描くのは、完璧な愛を求めるあまり自壊していく女性の滑稽で切実な叫びです。芸能界を舞台に嫉妬や不安を鋭いユーモアで包み込み、読者の「不完全な自分」をも肯定する筆致は見事。饒舌な文体が生む共感は、単なるコメディを超えた魂の救済を提示しています。 映像版ではコメディの躍動感が際立ちますが、原作は内面の葛藤を言葉で解体する深みが魅力。光り輝く世界の裏で、小説ならではの生々しい独白に触れることで、理想を演じる虚しさと素顔で愛される勇気が鮮明になります。両メディアを往復すれば、愛の本質がより多層的に照らし出されるでしょう。