The third novel by the Sunday times bestselling author of Amanda’s Wedding – Jenny Colgan. 

          80s child Ellie really thought life was going to be like the movies, only she has to admit that things haven’t quite turned out like that. Now that she and her gang are thirty, she has to admit that things haven’t quite turned out that way. When did horrible flats, difficult relationships and menaningless jobs take over? And, more importantly, what happened to the coolest, wisest, most inspirational Brat Packer of them all? Where is Andrew McCarthy now? 

          She is determined to get her idol to unravel some of life’s mysteries, and sets out on a quest across the USA to find Andrew McCarthy. Ellie sets out, unwillingly accompanied by her best friend Julia, on a quest across the USA, from LA to New York to find him. It’s an unlikely epic, by turns hilarious, romantic and downright uncomfortable — but they do find some answers, although not the ones they expected.