Kate, 43, has made a New Year's Eve resolution to find a man - someone to kiss. Her BFF Julie helps her with a dating profile, but it doesn't start promising.

There are a lot of funny dating situations like the big speed dating event, but this book effortlessly goes deeper, giving us real people with depth and complicated feelings of depression, anxiety and worthlessness but also love and friendship.

Kate has low self-esteem which leads to being clingy and not standing up for herself, be it with men or at work, where her boss Terry takes advantage of her at every turn. I don't know why no one nicknames him Terry the Terrible!

Luckily she has her cat Mittens and Julie's brother Ben is always there to help - or could he be more than a friend?

There is a sequel to this book called "Love, Julie", which is Julie's story of trying to recover from alcoholism. I mistakenly read it first and was blown away by the raw emotions of the story. I would recommend though to read these in order as Julie gets a lot of airtime here too.