Description From the host of NPR\'s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes 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.
In her free time, she watches far too many romantic comedies, bakes bread, watches her nephews get taller, and recently knitted her first hat..
Before NPR, she wrote for New York magazine online and for TV Guide , as well as for the influential website Television Without Pity.
She appears regularly on NPR\'s radio shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
About the author Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for National Public Radio and the host of the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which has also held sold-out live shows in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and elsewhere.
They\'ll need a lot of help, but in life, as in baseball, there\'s always a chance--right up until the last out.
But before they can find out what might lie ahead, they\'ll have to wrestle a few demons: the bonds they\'ve broken, the plans they\'ve changed, and the secrets they\'ve kept.
Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken--and what Starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more.
When Dean 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.
An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button.
In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy\'s childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can\'t throw straight anymore, and he can\'t figure out why.
Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn\'t correct them.
Evvie Drake is great company." --Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. . . "Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic .
Description From the host of NPR\'s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes 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
