A wonderfully tender, witty and knowing story of modern love by a stunning new voice. Helen's story opens when she is twelve and her father walks out on the family at Christmas. As she grows up, all her relationships with men are, consciously or not, defined by that one inescapable moment. While she goes about the business of dating and mating, in nine beautifully observed and utterly engaging episodes set in contemporary Ireland, Chicago, Paris and Amsterdam, we somehow learn the story of Everywoman trying to figure out the business of love. At twenty nine, finally, Helen begins to see the truth of what she has been missing all along. A truly original, beautifully written debut.