We've all had them - but can Dayna find the diamond amongst the rough? A hilarious and high-concept novel about love in the 21st century for the Facebook generation, published in the run-up to Valentine's Day.

Rules for a perfect life ...Rule One: Do not ditch the man everyone says is perfect for you because he eats the last yellow jelly-baby in the bag.

'She had no penitence, no consciousness of error or offence; no knowledge of any one circumstance but that he was gone.'

London 1721. William Spandel is deeply in debt and desperate. Sir Theodore Janssen, director of the recently collapsed South Sea Company, Spandel's major creditor, comes to his rescue.

But there is a catch. Spandrel must secretly deliver a package to Amsterdam to a man named de Vries, a friend of Janssen.
A man of his word, Spandrel delivers the package as promised, but things soon take a turn for the worse.

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