Talking to Addison
by Jenny Colgan

Twenty-eight-year-old Holly Livingston is a free-spirited freelance florist with no mortgage, no boyfriend...and no place to live when she waks out on the houseshare from hell. In desperation, she moves in with Josh and Kate, two old friends from college, and their mysterious roommate Addison, whose existence is confirmed only by the blips and whirring of his computer.

Yet from the moment Holly ignores girl-guy protocol and enters his room uninvited, she's in love. Or is she? Does it count as a promising relationship if he never leaves the house - let alone his computer - has never put the moves on you, and can only interface with a fat fellow agoraphobe he met on the Internet who lives 4,000 miles away?

Determined to solve these and other angst-ridden dilemmas of modern life, Holly, together with the sexually flummoxed Josh and the man-eater Kate, throw a party where everyone gets to bring along a single friend. Then with the help of a motley crew of characters (including her rock star wannabe co-worker and a mathematician named Finn who could bring a romantic bloom to the life of a budding florist), Holly, Josh, Kate, and even Addison finally begin to connect - with giddy, uproarious, unexpectedly poignant results.

Hardbound in excellent condition.