Nora Goes Off Script
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"The perfect escape." —USA Today
"Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." —Shelf Awareness
Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post • USA Today • Cosmopolitan • Southern...
"Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." —Shelf Awareness
Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post • USA Today • Cosmopolitan • Southern...
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"The perfect escape." —USA Today"Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." —Shelf Awareness
Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post • USA Today • Cosmopolitan • Southern Living • Country Living • Business Insider • Buzzfeed • Book Riot • The Augusta Chronicle
Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite…
Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne’er do well husband Nora’s life will never be the same.
The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.
Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story—the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.
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Chapter 1Hollywood's coming today.
I'm not going to lose my house.
Those two thoughts surface in the same moment as the sun starts to brighten my room. I've been paid for my screenplay, and the bonus money for letting them film here will hit my bank account at noon. Good-bye unpaid real estate taxes. Good-bye credit card debt. And to think, Ben's saying good-bye to me has made it all possible. I don't know how this day could get any better. I hop out of bed, grab my heaviest morning sweater, and head downstairs. I pour my coffee and go out to the porch to watch the sunrise.
Whoever buys this house from me, I always think, will tear it down. It's over a hundred years old; everything's broken. There's a certain point in January when the wind blows right into the kitchen and we have to duct-tape a fleece blanket over the doorframe. The floorboards droop; there are only two bathrooms and they're both upstairs. Each bedroom has a closet designed to house six outfits, preferably for very small people. Ben had a list of house complaints he used to like to run through daily, and I could never shake the feeling that he was really complaining about me.
This house is a disaster, sure. But I fell in love with it when I first looked down the long windy path of the driveway. The magnolia trees that line either side touch in the middle, so that now, in April, you drive through a tunnel of pink flowers. When you emerge onto the main road it feels like you've been transported from one world to another, like a bride leaving the church. It feels like a treat going out for milk, and it feels like a treat coming home.
The house was built by a British doctor named George Faircloth who lived in Manhattan and came upstate to Laurel Ridge in the summer, which explains the complete lack of winterization. It was built to be enjoyed on a seventy-eight-degree day and primarily from the outside. I imagine his landscaping this property
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like a maestro, arranging the magnolias and the forsythia beneath them to announce the beginning of spring. After a long gray winter, these first pink and yellow blooms shout, "Something's happening!" By May they'll have gone green with the rest of the yard, a quiet before the peonies and hydrangea bloom.
I knew I'd do anything to live here when I saw the tea house in the back. It's a one-room structure the doctor had commissioned to honor the ritual of formal tea. Where the main house is flimsy white clapboard with peeling black shutters, the tea house is made of gray stone with a slate roof. It has a small working fireplace and oak-paneled walls. It's as if Dr. Faircloth reached over the pond and plucked it out of the English countryside. I distinctly remember hearing Ben use the word "shed" when we walked into it, and I ignored him the way you do when you're trying to stay married.
The first morning we woke up here, I got up at first light because we didn't have any curtains yet. I took my coffee to the front porch, and the sunrise was the surprise of my life. I'd never seen the house at six a.m. I didn't even know we were facing east. It was like a gift with purchase, a reward for loving this broken place.
I stand on the porch now, taking it in before the movie crew arrives. Pink ribbons, then orange creep up behind the wide-armed oak tree at the end of my lawn. The sun rises behind it differently every day. Some days it's a solid bar of sherbet that rolls up like movie credits and fills the sky. Some days the light dapples through the leaves in a muted gray. The oak won't have leaves for a few weeks, just tiny yellow and white blooms pollinating one another and promising a lawn full of acorns. My lawn is its best self in April, particularly in the morning when it's dew-kissed and catching the light. I don't know the science behind all of it, but I know the rhythm of this property like I know my own
I knew I'd do anything to live here when I saw the tea house in the back. It's a one-room structure the doctor had commissioned to honor the ritual of formal tea. Where the main house is flimsy white clapboard with peeling black shutters, the tea house is made of gray stone with a slate roof. It has a small working fireplace and oak-paneled walls. It's as if Dr. Faircloth reached over the pond and plucked it out of the English countryside. I distinctly remember hearing Ben use the word "shed" when we walked into it, and I ignored him the way you do when you're trying to stay married.
The first morning we woke up here, I got up at first light because we didn't have any curtains yet. I took my coffee to the front porch, and the sunrise was the surprise of my life. I'd never seen the house at six a.m. I didn't even know we were facing east. It was like a gift with purchase, a reward for loving this broken place.
I stand on the porch now, taking it in before the movie crew arrives. Pink ribbons, then orange creep up behind the wide-armed oak tree at the end of my lawn. The sun rises behind it differently every day. Some days it's a solid bar of sherbet that rolls up like movie credits and fills the sky. Some days the light dapples through the leaves in a muted gray. The oak won't have leaves for a few weeks, just tiny yellow and white blooms pollinating one another and promising a lawn full of acorns. My lawn is its best self in April, particularly in the morning when it's dew-kissed and catching the light. I don't know the science behind all of it, but I know the rhythm of this property like I know my own
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Autoren-Porträt von Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan is the author of two Young Adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in the Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. Nora Goes Off Script is her adult debut novel. She lives in Rye, New York, with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Annabel Monaghan
- 2022, Internationale Ausgabe, 272 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593542061
- ISBN-13: 9780593542064
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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One of the Washington Post s 10 Noteworthy Books for June 2022 One of USA Today s Top Rom Coms for June 2022
One of Cosmopolitan s 15 Best Romance Novels of 2022 That ll Give You All the Feels
One of Amazon s Best Romance Books of 2022 So Far
One of Southern Living s Beach Reads Perfect for Summer 2022
One of Buzzfeed s 27 New Romance Books Releasing in June, July, and August That Will Heat Up Your Summer
One of The Augusta Chronicle s Newest Beach Reads Inspired by Hallmark Movies
A witty and poignant roller coaster that springs a delightful surprise. People
Monaghan s witty adult debut novel perfectly captures the apprehension and excitement of infatuation blended with life s complications. Washington Post
The perfect escape from reality In the best way. USA Today
[A] delightful work of fiction A perfect blend between quotidian life and the fairytale magic possible only in the best Hollywood endings. Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers or Linda Holmes's Evvie Drake Starts Over are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script. Shelf Awareness
Filled with swoon-worthy moments and hilariously lovable characters. Woman s World
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan is funny and smart, with a Nancy Meyers movie quality you ll love and a main character you ll want to befriend. This is the perfect easy-breezy, feel-good read. Real Simple
Absolutely irresistible funny, addictive and deliciously romantic, this is exactly the sort of book we all need right now. I loved every word. Rosie Walsh, author of The Love of My Life
Funny and good-hearted a romance for romantics, a blending of the real and the deliciously unreal. Linda Holmes, author of Evvie Drake Starts Over
This perfectly-scripted love story left me feeling the way all the best romances do: filled with hope and the feeling that true love always wins. Nora Goes Off Script will be a reread, for sure. Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We
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I loved this book with my whole heart. It's smart, fresh and romantic, full of humor and warmth. I didn't want to put it down. Beth O Leary, author of The Flatshare
[A] funny, clever, and joyful rom-com. Business Insider
Likable characters, smart humor and a didn t-see-it-coming ending makes this novel a must-read for summer. The Augusta Chronicle
Irresistible With pitch-perfect characters full of foibles and flaws, the work taps into genuine feelings as the characters fall in love. This is a winner. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Five starry-eyed stars for Nora Goes Off Script!...I honestly didn t know how it would end. Pins and needles! I loved the small-town setting, Nora s chance to start over after a bad marriage, and Nora s children and best friends. Highly recommend! The Southern Bookseller Review
Brimming with compelling characters .Readers will connect with the warmth and humor of this relationship-fiction gem. Booklist, starred review
Warm, witty and wise, Nora Goes Off Script tells the truth about all of love s ups and downs: family love, friendship love, romantic love that comes to a wrenching end and love that triumphs so beautifully, you ll still be smiling over it long after you ve put the book down." BookPage
This funny and charming new novel tells the story of a divorced screenwriter who pens a script about her failed marriage and finds that it might just provide the fresh start she's looking for." Southern Living
Monaghan s warm, accessible prose will draw readers right into this novel about a romance-channel screenwriter whose script based on her marriage s demise gets picked up for the big screen. Woman s Day
Hallmark meets Hollywood in this gorgeous, fast, and poignant read that will keep you invested from the second you pick it up. A book to savor! Abby Jimenez, USA Today bestselling author of The Friend Zone
Funny, heartwarming, dreamy everything I crave in a Hollywood rom-com is right here. I loved it so much I had to read the ending twice once to see what happened and again to savor it. KJ Dell Antonia, author of The Chicken Sisters
With Nora Ephron-level wit and smarts, Annabel Monaghan performs something of a literary hat trick in Nora Goes Off Script. While sending-up the romance industry, she chronicles the very romantic (and oddly believable) love affair between a handsome film star and a divorced suburban mom and she turns tradition on its head. Because in this wise and funny novel, it s the Hollywood hero who needs rescuing and a grounded single mom who saves the day. Nora Goes Off Script is sexy, heart-warming, and intelligent, and I loved it! Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party
I loved this book with my whole heart. It's smart, fresh and romantic, full of humor and warmth. I didn't want to put it down. Beth O Leary, author of The Flatshare
[A] funny, clever, and joyful rom-com. Business Insider
Likable characters, smart humor and a didn t-see-it-coming ending makes this novel a must-read for summer. The Augusta Chronicle
Irresistible With pitch-perfect characters full of foibles and flaws, the work taps into genuine feelings as the characters fall in love. This is a winner. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Five starry-eyed stars for Nora Goes Off Script!...I honestly didn t know how it would end. Pins and needles! I loved the small-town setting, Nora s chance to start over after a bad marriage, and Nora s children and best friends. Highly recommend! The Southern Bookseller Review
Brimming with compelling characters .Readers will connect with the warmth and humor of this relationship-fiction gem. Booklist, starred review
Warm, witty and wise, Nora Goes Off Script tells the truth about all of love s ups and downs: family love, friendship love, romantic love that comes to a wrenching end and love that triumphs so beautifully, you ll still be smiling over it long after you ve put the book down." BookPage
This funny and charming new novel tells the story of a divorced screenwriter who pens a script about her failed marriage and finds that it might just provide the fresh start she's looking for." Southern Living
Monaghan s warm, accessible prose will draw readers right into this novel about a romance-channel screenwriter whose script based on her marriage s demise gets picked up for the big screen. Woman s Day
Hallmark meets Hollywood in this gorgeous, fast, and poignant read that will keep you invested from the second you pick it up. A book to savor! Abby Jimenez, USA Today bestselling author of The Friend Zone
Funny, heartwarming, dreamy everything I crave in a Hollywood rom-com is right here. I loved it so much I had to read the ending twice once to see what happened and again to savor it. KJ Dell Antonia, author of The Chicken Sisters
With Nora Ephron-level wit and smarts, Annabel Monaghan performs something of a literary hat trick in Nora Goes Off Script. While sending-up the romance industry, she chronicles the very romantic (and oddly believable) love affair between a handsome film star and a divorced suburban mom and she turns tradition on its head. Because in this wise and funny novel, it s the Hollywood hero who needs rescuing and a grounded single mom who saves the day. Nora Goes Off Script is sexy, heart-warming, and intelligent, and I loved it! Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party
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