Plot Summary:David Rose holds one of the most intriguing, touching and amusing positions in journalism: editor of the Personals column of the London Review of Books. Not many jobs offer as much insight into the human heart and mind. Rose created the column in 1998, expecting writers to talk about their love of Proust and preferred Yeats. Instead, he found himself reading letters expressing love. These lonely heart notices are windows on the minds of often eccentric readers and their messages to their spouses, friends, acquaintances and especially to their mothers.