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AuthorsLive: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

AuthorsLive will present Annabel Monaghan in conversation with author, Lynda Cohen Loigman, to discuss her recently published book, Nora Goes Off Script. This event will only be available in person. Please register below.

Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite…Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her too-good-to-work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne’er do well husband Nora’s life will never be the same.

AuthorsLive at GreenwichLibrary is made possible through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees and contributions from generous donors. This event is open to all at no charge. Books will be available for purchase and signing through Diane's Books.

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This event is part of the 2022 Adult Summer Reading program, Read Beyond the Beaten Path.

Date:
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Marx Family Black Box Theater
Audience:
  Adult  
Categories:
  Author Talk     Book Discussion     Lecture and Conversation     Special Event  
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The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.

Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story—the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.

Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage’s collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love.

“Absolutely irresistible—funny, addictive, and deliciously romantic, this is exactly the sort of book we all need right now. I loved every word.”—Rosie Walsh, author of The Love of My Life

“I loved this book with my whole heart. It’s smart, fresh, and romantic, full of humor and warmth. I didn’t want to put it down.” —Beth O’Leary, author of The Flatshare

Annabel Monaghan is the author of two Young Adult novels: A Girl Named Digit, optioned by the Disney Channel, and the sequel, Double Digit. She is also the author of Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in the Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. Nora Goes Off Script is her adult debut novel.

Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, MA. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Her debut novel, Two-Family House, was a USA Today bestseller and a nominee for the Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards in Historical Fiction. Her second novel, The Wartime Sisters, was selected as a Woman’s World Book Club pick and a Best Book of 2019 by Real Simple Magazine. She is currently at work on her third novel.