Product Description The first thing Alexander notices about Kate is her fingernails, each painted a different sparkly shade. The first thing he says to her is ?American Hot?. Nell thinks Alexander?s extreme good looks are the sort that make men emotionally lazy. That he doesn?t have to lift a finger and women will come running. And then there?s Lucy. Lucy, who loves Alexander so much more than he deserves. Perfect Day is about the difference between falling in love and loving someone. It?s about what women want and what men want, and how scared people are of telling each other. It?s about dreaming of leaving and the possibility of escape. It?s about infidelity. It?s about the difference between the way people appear and the way they are inside. But in the end, it?s a love story. And it?s about one perfect day. Review 'A wonderfully woven tale of tangled relationships. I loved it' Penny Vincenzi on More Innocent Times. 'Superb...Very highly recommended' Good Book Guide on What Became of Us. 'A sparkling novel of wit, sadness and women's resilience' Sunday Mirror on The Men In Her Life. 'Parker writes with sympathy and wry humour' The Times on These Foolish Things. Book Description The story of a perfect day after which nothing can ever be the same again. From the Back Cover If we were a song, what song do you think we would be? On a perfect spring morning, Alexander catches an early train into London, but he never reaches work. Instead he spends the day with Kate, a waitress he has met the previous evening, a woman so unlike anyone he has ever known, she makes the world shimmer with possibility. Such a perfect day, Nell takes her child Lucy to the seaside hoping that the sea air will blow away the doubts she has about her life. As Nell ponders why falling in love with someone is so different from loving someone, Alexander allows himself to imagine leaving his old life behind and starting afresh. And by a stranger turn of fate, there's an opportunity to do just that - if he chooses to take it About the Author Imogen Parker is the author of More Innocent Times, These Foolish Things, The Men in Her Life, What Became of Us, Perfect Day and My Secret Lover. She lives on the south coast with her husband and son. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The first thing Alexander says to Kate is ?American Hot?.The first thing he notices is her fingernails. She?s standing behind him, taking his order, and as he turns his head, his eyes are level with her hands. The nails are small and round. Each is painted with a different sparkly shade. They are the fingernails of a child secretly sampling exotic little pots of paint on a mother?s dressing table.?Anything to start?? she asks him.Six or seven little plastic butterflies hold dark hair away from her face. Her skin is white in the blue neon light of the sign on the window. There is a slight gleam of sweat on her forehead. She waits for him to say something, and when he doesn?t, she wipes the back of her hand across her face, inadvertently dislodging two of the plastic butterflies which ping ungracefully to the floor.?Oh bugger.? She bends to retrieve them.Her hair is so close to his face that he can smell that she has washed it this morning in coconut shampoo.?A green salad?? He feels he has to offer something in exchange for her trouble.Later, he will wonder whether he would always have remembered the fleeting encounter if he had not chanced upon her again. Would his memory have retained those fingernails, or the suntan-lotion smell of her hair, or would it have discarded the information as rapidly as the details of his colleagues? choice of pizza and the number of times he refills his glass with the house red attempting to numb out the prickly restlessness that has been bothering him all morning?There is an end of term feeling at the school even though it?s only midday Thursday. The students have j