The shortlist for the 2013 Melissa Nathan Award for Fiction About Life and Love  is:

Charlotte Street, Danny Wallace (Ebury Press)
You Had Me At Hello, Mhairi McFarlane (HarperCollins)
Summer Daydreams, Carole Matthews (Little Brown)
Where'd You Go To, Bernadette, Maria Semple (Orion)
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell (Orion)
The Wedding Diaries, Sam Binnie (HarperCollins)