The Impossible Search for the Perfect Man: A completely heartbreaking, uplifting book club read from Debbie Howells for 2023

Imagine for a moment, your husband leaves you. Then through a bizarre twist of events, you find yourself working with the girl he's left you for - and even worse, she's pregnant...

Louisa's not really up to any more complicated relationships. Right now, she doesn't need them. She has good friends. Okay, so one has a screwed-up husband and the other a very strange horoscope habit. Not to mention her ex-husband's new girlfriend, who Louisa has somehow found herself giving relationship counselling to. She doesn't need anyone else with problems in her life right now.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? To find a straightforward man, who isn't remotely messed up. Now there's a thought... But does such a man even exist?

She thinks not. But, she resolves, a life of helping other people find their happy-ever-afters is still something. But then handsome vet Marcus walks into her life. And everything changes...

Set in the Hampshire countryside against a background of horses and vets, this is a story about friendship and love, and life's way of throwing in the unexpected...