Ideal Love is an amazing, life-affirming book. It's not enough to live. To be truly alive, and fully explore all of life's infinite possibilities, you need to love. You feel you really get to know Venus, Gilles and Alex and, along with a cast of well-drawn incidental characters, they demonstrate love in all its many forms - romantic love, sexual love, religious love, love of learning, love of life. At times crushingly sad, Ideal Love is also a lot of fun with some brilliantly executed laugh out loud moments. It's a novel bursting with ideas, reflections on life and pithy one-liners that stay with you long after you finish reading it.
