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Dolly All the Time: A GMA Book Club Pick

by Annabel Monaghan

A summer arrangement in Whitfield

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A summer arrangement in Whitfield

Back in Whitfield, Rhode Island, to help preserve her family’s home, single mother Dolly Brick finds herself drawn into a pretend romance with Stewart Whitfield, a wealthy local heir recovering from a public breakup. The setup brings together two very different circumstances: Dolly’s practical determination to manage family problems on her own, and Stewart’s place in the town’s prominent family. Public events and boat rides give their arrangement room to shift, while Dolly faces a question the romance makes personal: whether she can begin to rely on someone else. Annabel Monaghan frames the romantic comedy around family ties, independence, and the uncertain boundary between pretending and genuine attachment.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy contemporary romantic comedies built around fake dating.
  • Readers interested in stories about single parenthood, family responsibilities, and returning to a hometown.
  • Readers looking for a romance set in a seaside Rhode Island community.

Themes

Fake dating and genuine attachmentFamily home and responsibilityIndependence and trustReturning to one’s hometown

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Book overview

A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion, from the New York Times bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script

"This book is like a spicy margarita... sweet and a little salty, tart and hot... I have fallen in love with Dolly and with funny, fizzing Annabel Monaghan!"--Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich


If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn't solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield--annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family--with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it's in her nature to help. But Stewart's proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She's never relied on anyone besides herself, can she really start now?
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