--- product_id: 1436906 title: "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight" price: "£8.17" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1436906-the-statistical-probability-of-love-at-first-sight store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight **Price:** £8.17 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - **How much does it cost?** £8.17 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1436906-the-statistical-probability-of-love-at-first-sight) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Now a NETFLIX feature film starring Haley Lu Richardson! Timing is everything in this deeply romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be found in unexpected places. Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley Sullivan's life. Having just missed her flight, she's stuck at the airport and late to her father's wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she happens upon the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.... A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? Review: Yearning to Read Review - SUMMARY - Flying to London may be most girls' dream, but not Hadley's. Not when she's flying out to be a bridesmaid in her own father's wedding. Even worse - she misses her flight by four minutes - ensuring she'll most likely be late. What she doesn't expect: she's helped by a boy named Oliver - and seated next to him as well. Because of this, the next 24 hours will change her very reason for existing. MY THOUGHTS - This is one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I rarely speak those words, and when I do, I really really for reals mean it. It usually means I bawled like a baby (as in this case) and it sometimes means my perspective was changed, altered, for the better (this is also the case). It is extremely difficult to write a review for a book as brilliant as this. I'm feeling quite inadequate, like I don't really know how to put into words my expressly positive feelings for this story. Jennifer E. Smith is a new author to me, but I assure you: I have plans to purchase every single book she's ever written or will write. These plans will, I assure you upon my life, come to pass. Smith's writing is like - GAH! The prose in this book is unbelievably GORGEOUS. I was completely swept away. STUNNING. CHARACTER NOTES - Hadley. HADLEY. She's way cool. Despite the goings on of her life, she's just completely awesome. I adore her to pieces. I was quite disappointed when I realized I can't actually be her best friend in real life. I love her that much. Her growth, the emotion she felt, how she handled every event, how her emotions developed throughout the story - I was completely enthralled, under the spell of her gorgeous third person POV narration. And her name? Definitely going on my top five favorite girl names list. Then there's the matter of Oliver. He's so much fun...like, beyond reason - and totally realistic at the same time. He has his own secrets and sorrows that are a part of him, but do not make him who he is. The slow, yet quick, progression of his relationship with Hadley made me bubble over with joy. I really really really need to marry a guy who will draw ducks on napkins for me. Oliver took my breath away more times that I can count. No really - my breath caught more than a few times! Hadley's father Andrew amazed me with his complexity. I hated and loved him at the same time. He left Hadley and her mom for a British woman...and yet I love who he is. He and Charlotte really added something beautiful to Hadley's journey. I loved every moment. I also love how Oliver is so much like Andrew. I don't know if that was intentional, but it sure was natural. They are both such free spirits, with great imaginations that veer toward the silly side. Such a neat dynamic! STORY NOTES - You'd think that not much can happen in 24 hours, but Mrs. Smith assures you, it can. A LOT can happen in 24 hours. A lot of beautiful things. I love how natural it is. The story progresses realistically. The relationship between Hadley and Oliver is never cheesy, but is, instead, completely realistic. It is NOT insta-love. It is, rather, like the old lady on the plane says, that a few hours with someone you love can feel like a blessed few years. This illustration, executed so perfectly, is beautiful. I love that nothing is perfect. There are perfect moments, but these moments are made perfect by their imperfections. Toilet paper on a little boy's shoe, Hadley's feet being stomped on during a father-daughter dance, tears at the sight of someone you love. The situation with Hadley's dad is hard. I was hoping Hadley wouldn't be made to seem like the bad guy for being bitter - her father left them. So I was stunned into happiness when both Hadley and her father confess. Such a beautiful scene. Right about where I started crying, actually. And I didn't stop until long after the book had come to a close. Normally, I don't do short books, because I usually feel jipped by the length. SO not the case here. This book has everything - everything good, that is. And nothing bad. The end is completely satisfying, so beautiful and breathtaking and consistent, tying off all loose ends and boosting even more tears. It's true - I'm in love with this book. SUMMING IT UP - ........................ It's one of those. The ones you can't summarize or phrase or recommend enough. You have to do the reading now, the experiencing and the living. Please, everyone - BUY THIS BOOK!! (And my sister, who read this book in almost one sitting, interjects that SHE gets Oliver. HA! AS IF!) For the Parents - Two, maybe three, minor swear words. A couple of kisses - no details. Talk of an affair. In reality, nothing to be worried about. Recommended 12+ Review: Fun, sweet read - ~4/5 [Taken from my blog.] So, I'm a little disappointed, and upset, about this book. (Which is all my fault, really, not the book's.) I was expecting it to be amazing; I was hoping it would be amazing. Everyone else seems to have liked it, and it really did seem like my type of book. But I wasn't as impressed, or in love, as I thought I would be. It was good, but it just wasn't as good as I thought it would be. It's about Hadley, who is taking a plane over to Europe, where she is to be the bridesmaid at her father's wedding. She's still upset with her father because of the divorce, and she hasn't seen him in a year, and so is unhappy about having to go. But then she misses her plane, and is almost late to the wedding, but that's okay because she ends up meeting this boy on the plane. So, I did like Hadley. I liked reading about her, and I found that I related to her rather well. (Particularly with her dad. With how she felt about her dad after, not at the beginning.) And I just generally liked her thoughts on things. It was fun, being in her head. And I liked her and Oliver. Oliver was fun, and sweet, and they were cute together. And I think I was expecting something else, or something? Because some of it seemed more, on Hadley's part, like when you meet someone, or just really talk to someone, for the first time, and you expect something more. But then again, I feels like that was purposeful, and so when she found out that he was feeling the same, that they both felt that deeper connection between them, it was even more special. Because she really liked him, but she was unsure because they'd barely known each other, and it was nice to find out that he liked her, too. Because I do feel like there was a connection between them, and there really was some good chemistry between the two. (I liked there conversations, especially. And there was even some good kissing. And, bonus, this isn't a story where they're from different places, and so how will it ever work out?, because they live within the same vicinity, and are only going to visit the same place.) Hadley's parents, too, are awesome. Her mom is sweet, and her dad, while what he did at first was very uncool, was still totally awesome. I was a little afraid at first, but she had a really nice talk with him, and it was so heartwarming, and even the woman he's marrying is nice. I was afraid at the start of the book that, since it's only over a twenty-four hour period, it would only show her time with Oliver, and them talking and getting things out, even though that seemed like a long time to be on a plane. But it wasn't. She went to the wedding, and found him again, and several things happened, so we actually get to see the things work out. I did really like this book. It was cute, and fun, and deep, and it was told really well, what with going to past memories and then to the present. But I think some of my lackluster feelings for it, is because I put off reading it. I wanted to read it really bad, so I put it off to read some other things (you know, for motivation), and then when I finally got to it, I tried to prolong my reading, to savor it, and instead, I think I lessened the excitement, the experience of it. I'm upset about this, because I was really excited for it, and I think I could have been more excited for it while reading it as well. The ending was good, too. It was very sweet for all of the characters, and pretty much everything worked out very well, and I liked it. It was sweet and cute and mostly fluffy, but it also had depth, and relate-able/good characters, who I liked. It was really well done, and I am looking forward to reading more of Smith's books in the future. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #83,018 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #62 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Emotions & Feelings #176 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Girls' & Women's Issues (Books) #258 in Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 2,902 Reviews | ## Images ![The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gVcp0qqbL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Yearning to Read Review *by A***S on July 23, 2012* SUMMARY - Flying to London may be most girls' dream, but not Hadley's. Not when she's flying out to be a bridesmaid in her own father's wedding. Even worse - she misses her flight by four minutes - ensuring she'll most likely be late. What she doesn't expect: she's helped by a boy named Oliver - and seated next to him as well. Because of this, the next 24 hours will change her very reason for existing. MY THOUGHTS - This is one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I rarely speak those words, and when I do, I really really for reals mean it. It usually means I bawled like a baby (as in this case) and it sometimes means my perspective was changed, altered, for the better (this is also the case). It is extremely difficult to write a review for a book as brilliant as this. I'm feeling quite inadequate, like I don't really know how to put into words my expressly positive feelings for this story. Jennifer E. Smith is a new author to me, but I assure you: I have plans to purchase every single book she's ever written or will write. These plans will, I assure you upon my life, come to pass. Smith's writing is like - GAH! The prose in this book is unbelievably GORGEOUS. I was completely swept away. STUNNING. CHARACTER NOTES - Hadley. HADLEY. She's way cool. Despite the goings on of her life, she's just completely awesome. I adore her to pieces. I was quite disappointed when I realized I can't actually be her best friend in real life. I love her that much. Her growth, the emotion she felt, how she handled every event, how her emotions developed throughout the story - I was completely enthralled, under the spell of her gorgeous third person POV narration. And her name? Definitely going on my top five favorite girl names list. Then there's the matter of Oliver. He's so much fun...like, beyond reason - and totally realistic at the same time. He has his own secrets and sorrows that are a part of him, but do not make him who he is. The slow, yet quick, progression of his relationship with Hadley made me bubble over with joy. I really really really need to marry a guy who will draw ducks on napkins for me. Oliver took my breath away more times that I can count. No really - my breath caught more than a few times! Hadley's father Andrew amazed me with his complexity. I hated and loved him at the same time. He left Hadley and her mom for a British woman...and yet I love who he is. He and Charlotte really added something beautiful to Hadley's journey. I loved every moment. I also love how Oliver is so much like Andrew. I don't know if that was intentional, but it sure was natural. They are both such free spirits, with great imaginations that veer toward the silly side. Such a neat dynamic! STORY NOTES - You'd think that not much can happen in 24 hours, but Mrs. Smith assures you, it can. A LOT can happen in 24 hours. A lot of beautiful things. I love how natural it is. The story progresses realistically. The relationship between Hadley and Oliver is never cheesy, but is, instead, completely realistic. It is NOT insta-love. It is, rather, like the old lady on the plane says, that a few hours with someone you love can feel like a blessed few years. This illustration, executed so perfectly, is beautiful. I love that nothing is perfect. There are perfect moments, but these moments are made perfect by their imperfections. Toilet paper on a little boy's shoe, Hadley's feet being stomped on during a father-daughter dance, tears at the sight of someone you love. The situation with Hadley's dad is hard. I was hoping Hadley wouldn't be made to seem like the bad guy for being bitter - her father left them. So I was stunned into happiness when both Hadley and her father confess. Such a beautiful scene. Right about where I started crying, actually. And I didn't stop until long after the book had come to a close. Normally, I don't do short books, because I usually feel jipped by the length. SO not the case here. This book has everything - everything good, that is. And nothing bad. The end is completely satisfying, so beautiful and breathtaking and consistent, tying off all loose ends and boosting even more tears. It's true - I'm in love with this book. SUMMING IT UP - ........................ It's one of those. The ones you can't summarize or phrase or recommend enough. You have to do the reading now, the experiencing and the living. Please, everyone - BUY THIS BOOK!! (And my sister, who read this book in almost one sitting, interjects that SHE gets Oliver. HA! AS IF!) For the Parents - Two, maybe three, minor swear words. A couple of kisses - no details. Talk of an affair. In reality, nothing to be worried about. Recommended 12+ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun, sweet read *by J***E on May 6, 2012* ~4/5 [Taken from my blog.] So, I'm a little disappointed, and upset, about this book. (Which is all my fault, really, not the book's.) I was expecting it to be amazing; I was hoping it would be amazing. Everyone else seems to have liked it, and it really did seem like my type of book. But I wasn't as impressed, or in love, as I thought I would be. It was good, but it just wasn't as good as I thought it would be. It's about Hadley, who is taking a plane over to Europe, where she is to be the bridesmaid at her father's wedding. She's still upset with her father because of the divorce, and she hasn't seen him in a year, and so is unhappy about having to go. But then she misses her plane, and is almost late to the wedding, but that's okay because she ends up meeting this boy on the plane. So, I did like Hadley. I liked reading about her, and I found that I related to her rather well. (Particularly with her dad. With how she felt about her dad after, not at the beginning.) And I just generally liked her thoughts on things. It was fun, being in her head. And I liked her and Oliver. Oliver was fun, and sweet, and they were cute together. And I think I was expecting something else, or something? Because some of it seemed more, on Hadley's part, like when you meet someone, or just really talk to someone, for the first time, and you expect something more. But then again, I feels like that was purposeful, and so when she found out that he was feeling the same, that they both felt that deeper connection between them, it was even more special. Because she really liked him, but she was unsure because they'd barely known each other, and it was nice to find out that he liked her, too. Because I do feel like there was a connection between them, and there really was some good chemistry between the two. (I liked there conversations, especially. And there was even some good kissing. And, bonus, this isn't a story where they're from different places, and so how will it ever work out?, because they live within the same vicinity, and are only going to visit the same place.) Hadley's parents, too, are awesome. Her mom is sweet, and her dad, while what he did at first was very uncool, was still totally awesome. I was a little afraid at first, but she had a really nice talk with him, and it was so heartwarming, and even the woman he's marrying is nice. I was afraid at the start of the book that, since it's only over a twenty-four hour period, it would only show her time with Oliver, and them talking and getting things out, even though that seemed like a long time to be on a plane. But it wasn't. She went to the wedding, and found him again, and several things happened, so we actually get to see the things work out. I did really like this book. It was cute, and fun, and deep, and it was told really well, what with going to past memories and then to the present. But I think some of my lackluster feelings for it, is because I put off reading it. I wanted to read it really bad, so I put it off to read some other things (you know, for motivation), and then when I finally got to it, I tried to prolong my reading, to savor it, and instead, I think I lessened the excitement, the experience of it. I'm upset about this, because I was really excited for it, and I think I could have been more excited for it while reading it as well. The ending was good, too. It was very sweet for all of the characters, and pretty much everything worked out very well, and I liked it. It was sweet and cute and mostly fluffy, but it also had depth, and relate-able/good characters, who I liked. It was really well done, and I am looking forward to reading more of Smith's books in the future. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Not as fluffy as I hoped, but still a good read! *by Z***E on February 13, 2012* Ah, airports. On one side there's something mystifying about airports; missed chances, a stranger glancing for far too long, spit second smiles... and on the other side, there's something really really irritating about them; lots of waiting, crowds and the ickyness hanging in the air. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight mixes both of these things together, perfectly. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight wasn't a fluffy lovey-dovey read like I thought it would be. It was much heavier than that. Long story short, Hadley hates her dad and at that moment, she also hates her mom, just a little bit for sending off to the other side of the world to see her father marry a woman Hadley has never met. I think that's pretty good grounds for a seventeen year old to hate her parents, I mean, if I were Hadley, I'd be pissed. Along the way she meets a strange boy named Oliver. Hadley has a pretty fantastic relationship with her parents, you know, prior to hating them. It was hard to tell who she was closer to. It was obvious she was daddy's little girl but since the divorce, she was also her mother's best friend and it's nice to see a book in YA where the kid gets along great with (both) their parents. Hadley herself I think needed this trip. She needed this trip to understand. To figure out what she wanted in her own life herself and she needed it to heal. Oliver was an interesting character. He was funny, kind, a total gentleman but also totally mysterious. We meet Oliver and he seems like he's this happy cheerful guy and as the 24hrs goes on, we see that he had his own problems to deal with that led him to London. We see Oliver break down and that's not something you usually see in the male main character of a YA book, so it was refreshing. It helped make Oliver seem real. While The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight wasn't light and fluffy or what I expected it to be, it was still an enjoyable read. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between - My Life with the Walter Boys --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1436906-the-statistical-probability-of-love-at-first-sight](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1436906-the-statistical-probability-of-love-at-first-sight) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-30*