From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand, comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.
Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it—these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine—a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it.
On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food. But her new home isn’t quite matching up with the fantasy. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in the process, realizes there’s really no such thing as the way life should be.
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“Angela Russo, a thirty-three-year-old event planner in New
York City, has a job she finds monotonous, a lackluster love life, and a
best friend who suggests trying an online dating service. Angela signs
up and, on a whim, extends the site’s geography search to include Maine,
picturing herself in a cozy, rustic cottage by the shore…When she arrives in Maine, however, it is
not the picture-perfect storybook scene she anticipated. But with her
love of cooking and dreams of a cottage by the sea as guiding lights,
Angela learns to live life and achieve success on her own terms.”
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