Laura works for a company called Love Life, a lifestyle website where she interviews people about how they met. Suki, her difficult boss (to put it mildly), wants to suck in viewers with feel good stories and get them to buy "stuff" in targeted ads, which helps keep the business afloat. Laura talks Suki into letting her travel from London to Jersey, an island in the English Channel, to see where her parents met and fell in love 30 years ago. Laura's father died when she was a small child, and her mother died a couple years ago. Suki gives Laura a long weekend to make a good story out of the trip.
Laura's wish is to find her own true love, and her hopes start to soar after she lands on the island and discovers at her hotel that she has picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. The items in the suitcase show her a man that seems to meet all of her requirements on paper, and she tries to meet him, supposing that he has probably taken her suitcase. Laura enlists the help of Ted, a man who grew up on the island, who drives a cab part-time while he's helping his aging father.
Laura does some cringy things, a bit reminiscent of the "I Love Lucy" show, but she is also thoughtful and learning that the life she imagined her parents had together was not at all what she had been led to believe.
The story's character development and many subplots made it hard to put this book down.
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