A laugh out loud look at first love loss and trying to avoid the girl of your dreams. What a
stupid expression that is in the first place: To fall in love. Like you fall into a ditch or
something. Maybe people need to look where they're going. As far as Phoebe Davis is concerned
love is to be avoided at all costs. Why would you spend your life worrying about something that
turns you into a complete moron? If her best friend Polly is anything to go by the first sniff
of a relationship makes you forget about your friends (like hello?) get completely obsessed
with sex (yawn) and bang on constantly about a person who definitely isn't as great as you
think they are. So Phoebe isn't going to fall in love ever. But then she meets Emma . . .
Love is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann is a hilarious life-affirming novel about all the big
stuff: love sex death family heartbreak kittens . . . and kisses that turn the whole world
upside down.
