Are you always the one before The One? Valerie Frankel wrestles the girlfriend curse in her sassy new novel

Within six months of them breaking up with her, Peg Silver's ex-lovers always meet and marry the women of their dreams. A major lifestyle change is clearly called for, which is why she says goodbye to Manhattan and hello to a gorgeous farmhouse in tiny, backwater Vermont. Finally, she hopes, she's bound to meet the ultimate, all-organic country man of her dreams. Instead, Peg finds herself at Inward Bound - a proactive adult-education retreat for the hapless and hopelessly lovelorn. What has she done? However, things could be finally starting to look up in the shape of Linus, Inward Bound's sexy, scruffy, smart and still-single founder. Is Peg about to find her cure?