På engelska One For My Baby:
Tony Parsons is great, but One form my baby isn't as good as Man and Boy, which was so great/wonderful/lovely. But I definitely likes One for my baby too. It's a different story about the same things. The only thing that really is missing is adorable little Pat!
This time the main character is called Alfie (what a stupid name by the way). He is also looking for true love. The only thing that makes him different from the main character in Man and Boy (help, what was he called?) is that his wife has died and he thinks he has already got his chance... But othervice most things are quite much the same. Tha Asian girls that turn out not to be right for Alfie, the English woman (single mother with not so respectable job (here called Jackie, in M&B called Syd, so even the names are similiar, names that I assotiate firsthand with men) who turn to BE the right one...
In "Baby" there is of course more of the Asian culture. The happy east and the lousy modern west... That the book definitely states. Alfie admires for example the Chinese and wants to learn Tai Chi. (Tai Chi, that's our taitsí, "Pappa e på taitsí", we even refuse to pronaunce it right.)