Field Notes on Love

Hugo Wilkinson is the youngest of the Surrey Sextuplets. He and his siblings are about to start college locally thanks to a scholarship provided by a generous benefactor, but he yearns to be different from his siblings and strike out on his own. New Yorker Margaret “Mae” Campbell has been accepted to her dream school USC but not to the film program, and she can’t understand why when her audition film was flawless, but she’s determined to make a new audition tape and keep trying. Due to rather interesting circumstances involving Hugo’s ex-girlfriend (also named Margaret Campbell), Hugo and Mae end up traveling together across the U.S. from New York to California on a train getting to know each other in cramped spaces. More than just breezy chic lit, Jennifer E. Smith has created dynamic characters that demonstrate perfectly how opposites really do attract.