Description:
Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in LA, wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she's a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel.
A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit--as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person's life can reach out across the centuries to touch another's.
Brief description:
Gina Fattore is executive producer of the USA series Dare Me. She's also written for Parenthood, Californication, Gilmore Girls, and Dawson's Creek. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Millions, Salon, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
Review Quotes:
"Witty, whip-smart and winning...a sheer delight."
-- "Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author"