**"[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy." --*The Boston
Globe
"A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy." --People, Best of Fall
2020
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****From the beloved author of Dickens and Prince, About A Boy, and
High Fidelity, this warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first
century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you
happiest is someone you never expected**
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script
she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same
background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a
family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a
nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged
sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she
isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a
babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and
working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy
meet. It's not a match anyone one could have predicted. He's of a
different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But
sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the
one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it
through.
Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally
funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall
surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person--someone
you didn't see coming.
