Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Date of publication: December 2018
From the critically acclaimed author of Stepdog and The
Fool’s Tale comes a romantic comedy that tells the story of one
journalist secretly juggling two bylines for competing newspapers on a
small island.
One island, two newspapers, and the reporter who
played them both
Joanna Howes is a Martha’s Vineyard native who left the
Island at eighteen and moved to New York City to become a writer. Now in
her thirties, she reluctantly returns to care for her cranky, injured
uncle. Needing income, she freelances for one island newspaper (the one
Uncle Hank likes). But that doesn’t cover her bills, so she creates an alter
ego to write for the rival paper (the one Uncle Hank doesn’t like).
The Vineyard has a split personality – part elite summer
resort, part working-class small town. The Island’s two papers –the Journal and
the Newes – are famously at odds with each other and reflect
the seasonal schism in their reporting. Everybody’s shoulder seems to have a
chip on it.
Joanna gets personally ensnared in a messy situation she’s
assigned to write about for both papers: a wealthy seasonal resident sues the
town for the right to use his private helicopter. When Johanna agrees to a cup
of coffee with the witty, handsome stranger she meets at a zoning board
meeting, she has no idea she’s made a date with Orion Smith, helicopter owner.
Orion, meanwhile, doesn’t realize Joanna is the niece of his political nemesis,
Henry Holmes.
Joanna scrambles to keep her disparate identities separate
from each other in the tiny off-season community, but everything she does just
gets her into deeper trouble…and further complicates her budding romance with
the exasperating charmer she’s doing her best not to fall for.
A story about the half-truths we tell ourselves – and others
– especially when our hearts are on the line.
“The most exciting story of skullduggery, intrigue and
drama on Martha’s Vineyard since the last time Alan Dershowitz was snubbed at a
cocktail party.”
— Peter Sagal, Host of NPR’s “Wait, Wait…Don’t
Tell Me!” and author of The Incomplete Book of Running
“[A] gem of a novel. . . . this rollicking rom-com unfolds
on Martha’s Vineyard, which has spun its own share of fables. Quick, somebody
call Hollywood. This one is ready for the big screen.”
— Bob Drogin, author of Curveball: Spies,
Lies and the Con Man Who Caused a War
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About N. D. Galland
N. D. Galland is the author of the historical
novels Godiva, I, Iago, Crossed, Revenge
of the Rose, and The Fool’s Tale, as well as the
contemporary romantic comedy Stepdog, and the New York
Times bestselling near-future thriller The Rise and Fall
of D.O.D.O. (with Neal Stephenson). She lives on Martha’s Vineyard.
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2 comments:
This sounds good! I will definitely check it out.
Thanks for describing such things on your blog.
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