A Reese's Book Club pick — an epic, decades-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy.
“The truth is there's no such thing as a normal life. There's just the time you get and how you spend it.”
In the summer of 2000, seventeen-year-old AJ dreams of being a writer far from her small town. Working in a video rental store, her life changes forever when Noah walks in.
Noah is intense and enigmatic, the youngest in a family of great actors. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two forge a bond first as friends, then as acting partners — until the day Noah disappears without a word.
Seven years later in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in the same intergalactic TV production as Noah, now a well-known Hollywood star. As their on-screen characters grow closer, the lines between reality and acting begin to blur.
Unable to stay away from each other, AJ and Noah are forced to confront the truth of what happened years ago — and the devastating secret that will send their lives careening apart, even as fate continues to draw them together.
Praise
“An achingly romantic, compulsively readable love story — with chemistry that burns up every page.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Smart and romantic, with fine observations about theater and life… The final act will stay with me.” — Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“A rare and intoxicating love story that hooks from the very first page. I adored it.” — Clare Leslie Hall, author of Broken Country
“A story that alternately burns with a fiery romance and crackles with whimsical nerdy delights.” — Nikki Erlick, author of The Measure
About the author
Emma Brodie has worked in book publishing for fifteen years and is currently an Executive Editor at Clarkson Potter. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars, her debut novel Songs in Ursa Major received the American Book Award. She lives on Martha's Vineyard.
Perfect for readers of
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and every second-chance romance where two people keep being pulled back into the same story. Cover design by Cassie Vu.
