Evvie Drake Starts Over A Novel - Ballantine Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today Everything a romantic comedy should be witty, relatable, and a little complicated.People A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who s lost his game. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth Evvie Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn t correct them. Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the yips he can t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean s future. When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie s house, the two make a deal Dean won t ask about Evvie s late husband, and Evvie won t ask about Dean s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being brokenand what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their paststhe friendships they ve damaged, the secrets they ve keptbut in life, as in baseball, there s always a chanceup until the last out. A joyful, hilarious, and hopefilled debut, Evvie Drake Starts Over will have you cheering for the two most unlikely comebacks of the yearand will leave you wanting more from Linda Holmes. Praise for Evvie Drake Starts Over A quirky, sweet, and splendid story of a woman coming into her own.Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six Effortlessly enjoyable . . . a pitchperfect . . . adult love story that is as romantic as it is real. USA Today Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company.Rainbow Rowell, 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park