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.
