![]() Twenty-four years later Petra goes to claim her prize, and Petra and Bill's paths cross once more. Bill Finn is the young writer of Cassidy's fan magazine, who sets a quiz that Petra wins. Petra Williams is 13, growing up in Wales with a demanding German mother, trying to get in with the right crowd at school and deep in the throes of her very first pop star crush. But finally, and literally wrapped up in a pretty bow, I Think I Love You, Pearson's ode to David Cassidy and adolescent dreams, has arrived. It took Audrey Niffenegger, author of the similarly world-eating Time Traveler's Wife, six years to write the followup, during which time she couldn't figure out why her publishers kept taking her out to lunch and making pointed remarks about their share price. It is hard for writers not to worry about "second album syndrome", especially when you've already been the voice of a generation. There was talk of her being sued by Harvey Weinstein for non-delivery, and Pearson's touching confession of clinical depression in the pages of the Daily Mail. It's been seven years since the working-mother smash hit, I Don't Know How She Does It. A llison Pearson's new novel has had a troubled gestation, to put it mildly.
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