Fictional characters also looking for love include:

Fictional characters also looking for love include:
Hannah Gavener, who learns about love through experiencing a variety of relationships during the course of 15 years in Curtis Sittenfeld's "The Man of My Dreams" (Random House).
Anna Walsh, a newlywed who inexplicably finds herself with bumps and bruises in a Dublin hospital but can't find her husband back in New York in "Anybody Out There?" (William Morrow) by Marian Keyes.
Hallie Lawrence Pierpont, who checks her Rolodex for exes when her husband of many years unceremoniously dumps her in "The Men I Didn't Marry" (Ballantine) by Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnumberger.
Novels with "designer" titles include "Gucci Gucci Coo" (Delta) by Sue Margolis, in which the owner of a baby boutique in London is stunned to learn that her latest customer is her 50-year-old mother, and "Goodbye, Jimmy Choo" (5 Spot) by Annie Sanders, in which two London women with disparate lifestyles find common ground as reluctant transplants to the English countryside.
Another unlikely pair are the newly wed and the newly divorced socialites who compare relationship notes as they whirl through high-society Manhattan together in "The Debutante Divorcee" (Miramax), a novel by Plum Sykes.
If books are your escape, you'll relate to Dora, who reads them voraciously to help her forget her disappointing life in "Literacy and Longing in L.A." (Delacorte Press), a novel by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack.