Age, Sex, Location - Melissa Pimentel

A hilarious and refreshingly honest foray into modern dating, Age Sex Location is Bridget Jones' Diary for HBO's Girls generation. So why can't she convince a man she isn't after something more serious than scrambled eggs and goodbye in the morning? An American ex-pat living in London, Lauren is intelligent, beautiful, charming and loves to party.

Lauren vows to stick by every rule along the way - refusing to pay the bill, chatting up every man in her path and withholding sex - and will switch seamlessly to the next book at the end of each month. Determined to break the curse and snare some regular male affection, she embarks on a project: each month she will follow the rules of a dating guide. Lauren's love life is about to get scientific, and very experimental in some cases.

Love, sex, dating and all the things that go horribly wrong along the way - this is perfect for fans of Bridget Jones' Diary. Melissa grew up in a small town in Massachusetts in a house without cable and therefore much of her childhood was spent watching 1970s British comedy on public television.At twenty-two, she made the move to London and has lived there happily for ten years, though has sadly never come across the Ministry of Funny Walks. Before meeting her fiance, she spent much of her time trawling the London dating scene for clean, non-sociopathic sexual partners and blogging about it, which became the inspiration for her first novel.

These days, she spends much of her time reading in the various pubs of Stoke Newington and engaging in a long-standing emotional feud with their disgruntled cat, Welles. She works in publishing.