As a self-proclaimed Anglophile, I love reading books about England, and so when I came across Jerramy Fine’s memoir, Someday My Prince Will Come it seemed like I’d found a kindred spirit. How this Canadian girl (meaning me) ended up married to an American and living in the southern United States versus my long-held fantasy of living in England is still something of a mystery to me.

So Jerramy’s book spoke to that part of me – and the cute cover didn’t hurt, either! I was a little concerned that Jerramy would be some flighty, chick-lit type heroine who’d get on my nerves before I got past the first chapter, but I needn’t have worried. She’s charming. She’s unique. She’s funny. She’s INTELLIGENT. She’s my new BFF. (OK, we’re not really friends, but she is extremely likable and a girl can dream, right?)

If you didn’t know better – and see the photo of Jerramy and her parents on the back cover – you’d swear her account of her childhood was made up. The child of hippies, Jerramy lived in a tipi in Colorado and practically from infancy, knew that she did not belong. While her parents advocated peace, love and recreational drug use, Jerramy preferred dressing like a princess, holding formal dinner parties and memorizing peerage lists. From the age of nine, she dreamed of marrying a prince, and not just any prince, but Peter Philips, son of Princess Anne and  eleventh in line to the British throne. Rather than let her dream go the way of other childhood fantasies, Jerramy kept that at the forefront of her life from that time onward, dictating where she went to school and what she studied, where she lived and who she dated.

Once she finally arrives in London, her (mis)adventures are both charming and hilarious and the only drawback is that you wish you were there to participate in – or at least witness – the various high-society hijinks and seemingly endless parties. From ushering in the milennium with an Indian prince, to dealing with coke-fiend flatmates, Jerramy’s life is never a dull moment, and neither is her book. This was a thoroughly enjoyable, funny and lighthearted look at one woman’s quest to live life in the royal lane.

Does she get her man in the end? You’ll have to read it to find out.