It’s a made-for-the-movies beginning. On a sunny day in 2013 in London’s Victoria Park, a British man’s young daughter jumps into a pond to see the ducks up close and ends up face down in the water.

Consider yourself kissed — and hugged and understood — by Jessica Stanley's smart, oh-so-relatable tale of a woman who seems to have assembled all the pieces of a happy life but feels like she's lost ...

Coralie Bower and Adam Whiteman meet kind-of cute a few pages into Jessica Stanley’s winning second novel, “Consider Yourself Kissed”: Coralie jumps into a pond to save Adam’s precocious 4-year-old ...

Loved One and Consider Yourself Kissed have a lot in common. They both largely take place in London (in the same neighborhood, even); their plots center on women around 30 navigating relationships ...