Why waving goodbye to Mr Wonderful may be the wisest folly of all...Alice Evans has got a GSOH, GFCH (gas-fired central heating), a cat and a Mitsubishi colour portable. People have told her she can look pretty if she tries. She's thirty-eight and single, so will someone please pass the message on? What Alice thinks she needs is Mr Wonderful. A man like her pottery teacher, James Mitchel, who's warm and wise and gorgeous. But as one long, hot summer disappears with no sign of her snaring the man of her dreams, Alice is forced to consider the alternatives. Should she settle for Mr Mediocre, her dull but dependable ex boyfriend Eamon, and spend the rest of her days trying to like golf? Or could there be another way for a woman to ditch all the longing - and really start living her life?

为什么与神奇先生挥手告别可能是最明智的愚蠢行为......爱丽丝-埃文斯有一台GSOH、GFCH（燃气集中供暖）、一只猫和一台三菱彩色便携机。人们告诉她，如果她努力，她可以看起来很美。她已经38岁了，还是单身，所以谁能把这个消息传给她？爱丽丝认为她需要的是 "神奇先生"。一个像她的陶艺老师詹姆斯-米切尔那样的男人，他热情、睿智、华丽。但是，随着一个漫长而炎热的夏天的消失，她没有抓住她梦想中的男人的迹象，爱丽丝被迫考虑其他选择。她是否应该满足于 "平庸先生"，即她那沉闷但可靠的前男友埃蒙，并在余下的日子里努力喜欢高尔夫？或者，是否有另一种方法可以让一个女人抛弃所有的渴望--并真正开始过她的生活？