false 86382 4 Jake Entwhistle is smart and handsome, but living with a shadow over his romantic history. Janet Rossi is a bright, witty aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but Janet suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, “not exactly a good long-term investment.” After meeting by accident late one night, they begin a love affair filled with humor, startling intimacy, and a deep, abiding connection. 1395805 2005 A Little Love Story: A Novel total:147|5:23|4:61|3:47|2:12|1:4| 147 528 221 41 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:13:42 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 14:23:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 15:52:27 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 16:05:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:24 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:24 -0800 2009 The reviews of A Little Love Story are remarkably uniform: nearly everyone who's read the book remarks that this novel shouldn't work. It should crash and burn on the shoals of clich_à. Janet and Jake's romance should seem cloying, and readers should suffocate in all the emotion. But Merullo, best k...

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However, there is one problem.. Janet is sick with Cystic Fibrosis and she doesn't have much time to live.

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