The Thing About Jane Spring

Jane Spring has discovered that twenty-first-century relationships are built on a myth. Shes organized, attractive, strong-minded and self-sufficient - yet shes single. Shes smart, ambitious and sexually confident - yet somehow, while all her friends plan their weddings, no-one wants to marry her.

Then one day she finds the answer. Drinking her way through a depressing afternoon snowed into her apartment, she turns on the TV and finds a Doris Day marathon. And thats when the revelation hits her: Doris wouldnt be stuck inside alone at a weekend. Doris wouldnt scare men off. Doris always gets her man. Because despite everything men say, theyre terrified of women like Jane. What they really want is a cute little blonde with frosted pink lipstick, tight pencil skirts and kitten heels. What they really want is Doris.

And so Jane Spring sets out to reinvent herself. If thats what men want, thats what shell give them...