Evvie Drake Starts Over

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today ΓÇó ΓÇ£Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty,relatableand a little complicated.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöPeople A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman whoΓÇÖs lost her husband and a major league pitcher whoΓÇÖs lost his game. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In a sleepy seaside town in Mainerecently widowed Eveleth ΓÇ£EvvieΓÇ¥ Drake rarely leaves her largepainfully empty house nearly a year after her husbandΓÇÖs death in a car crash. Everyone in towneven her best friendAndythinks grief keeps her locked insideand Evvie doesnΓÇÖt correct them. Meanwhilein New York CityDean Tenneyformer Major League pitcher and AndyΓÇÖs childhood best friendis wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the ΓÇ£yipsΓÇ¥: he canΓÇÖt throw straight anymoreandeven worsehe canΓÇÖt figure out why. As the media storm heats upan invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on DeanΓÇÖs future. When he moves into an apartment at the back of EvvieΓÇÖs housethe two make a deal: Dean wonΓÇÖt ask about EvvieΓÇÖs late husbandand Evvie wonΓÇÖt ask about DeanΓÇÖs baseball career. Rulesthoughhave a funny way of being brokenΓÇöand what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forwardEvvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pastsΓÇöthe friendships theyΓÇÖve damagedthe secrets theyΓÇÖve keptΓÇöbut in lifeas in baseballthereΓÇÖs always a chanceΓÇöup until the last out. A joyfulhilariousand hope-filled debutEvvie Drake Starts Over will have you cheering for the two most unlikely comebacks of the yearΓÇöand will leave you wanting more from Linda Holmes. Praise for Evvie Drake Starts Over ΓÇ£A quirkysweetand splendid story of a woman coming into her own.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöTaylor Jenkins ReidNew York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six ΓÇ£Effortlessly enjoyable . . . [a] pitch-perfect . . . adult love story that is as romantic as it is real.ΓÇ¥ΓÇôUSA Today ΓÇ£Charminghopefuland gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöRainbow Rowell#1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park