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welcome book lovers
each Sunday myself and my BFF Ann from Romancing the Readers
will be featuring /shining the spotlight on a book or book related themes. maybe it's a book we read and loved or maybe it's something we can't wait to read or a burning question we have...well you get the idea!
we also blog together on Book Club Thursdays (aka BCT) and on fridays (various features).
today my feature is:
indiebound
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.
Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.
When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.
Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.
When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.
i can't say enough about how much i LOVED this book. i didn't want it to end...
i'll call this women's fiction but only because the other more serious plot points are more of the focus here rather than the romance. I will say the romance between Evvie and Dean- which by the was is utterly charming and romantic-does play a HUGE role in the novel so i think a romance reader wouldn't feel cheated.
i will also add that Ms Holmes writes the serious issues she deals with her with a lighter touch and this is shining/best part of the novel- in other words she is REALISTIC and BELIEVABLE here in this novel and doesn't shy away from some things.
i can't wait for more from this debut author. and yes even though it sounds cheesy- it's a huge grand slam.
it's available 25 june
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