And you’d never have guessed it, but being able to feel a bit sorry for him was even better than thinking he was perfect.” Petra also tells us how she felt his song “I Am a Clown” was full of secret coded messages that she alone could decipher: “David felt lonely and trapped in his pop-star life, and only I could hear him. I don’t know how you can get the idea that someone who has the biggest fan club in history, bigger than Elvis’s or the Beatles’, is yours and yours alone, but you can, you really can.” Petra tells us how she hated smutty jokes about David: “I suppose they were an unwelcome reminder that he was common property. It showcases its author’s skills as an observer and her uncanny ability to render on the page exactly what it’s like to be a teenage girl, trying to navigate the merciless social hierarchy at school, while pouring all her yearnings into the impossible dream of somehow, someday becoming Mrs. It’s a novel that’s as light and sugary as a pop song, but if its plot is a little too predictable and jerry-built, the book still easily transcends the chick-lit genre. Pearson writes with such humor and affection for her characters that we’re perfectly happy to sit back and see how she steers her people toward that happy ending. You know, David Cassidy of “The Partridge Family” he with the Bambi eyes and feathered mop top, who was the love object of millions of young girls in that era of bell-bottom pants, platform shoes and Mary Quant eye shadow.Ī romantic comedy tailor-made for the movies, “I Think I Love You” is a sort of witty mash-up of “Mean Girls,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and one of Nancy Meyers’s fairy tales for the middle aged, with a little nod along the way to “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Though we know after two dozen pages or so exactly where this novel is headed, Ms. Just as Allison Pearson’s 2002 best seller, “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” proved she had perfect pitch for channeling a stressed-out working mom in hedge-fund-crazy London, so her new novel, “I Think I Love You,” shows she has the same gift for channeling an insecure 13-year-old in 1974 with a mad crush on the pop star David Cassidy.
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