At thirty-two, Marine Vandale is still waiting for true love. The kind of love that takes your breath away, knocks you on the ground, and makes you scared and crazy all at once. “You’re certainly not going to find it if you spend all your time with three guys,” her mother likes to remind her. It’s just that Marine, her ex Laurent, Jeff her roommate, and their best friend Julien are inseparable. Together, they’re trying to navigate the troubled waters of their thirties, become real adults and tame love. But what used to seem like child’s play is becoming less and less of a game, and today’s mistakes are not as meaningless as the ones they made in their twenties. But each one in his or her own way continues to hope. And from date to date, from man to man, through a thousand situations she describes as “summer stock theatre,” Marine persists in believing that one day she’ll prove to her mother that you can’t fight love.

Rafaële Germain is an author, columnist and emcee for just about any kind of thing imaginable. Born in Montreal in 1976, she writes a weekly column for La Presse and contributes to the program Je l’ai vu à la radio on Radio Canada’s Premiere chaine. Gin Tonic et Concombre was on Quebec bestseller lists for most of 2008 and has sold over 80,000 copies in French.

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