Many thanks to NetGalley, Henry Holt & Company, and Karen Dukess for the opportunity to read and review her debut novel - a great summer read!
In the late 1980s, Eve is working for a publishing company as an editorial assistant while she dreams of being a writer yet holds back actually writing because of fear. She attends a party thrown by Henry Gray, an acclaimed writer for The New Yorker, who lives in her family's Cape Cod hometown. There she meets Franny, Henry's son, and becomes infatuated with him. When she goes back to NYC, she is told that she was passed over for a promotion and decides to quit and become Henry's assistant on his memoir. Romantic feelings begin to develop between the two, made easier by the fact that Franny is away. She also meets Jeremy, a family friend, who has just written a wonderful first novel. These three men and Eve will come together in a dramatic way at the Gray's annual book party.
I just enjoyed being immersed in the Cape Cod summer while reading about writing and books! A great debut - looking forward to more from this author!
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