The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Instant USA Today bestseller!
€œAbbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.€Â€"#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin
€œMeet our bookish millennial heroine€"a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will€¦ Waxman€s wit and wry humor stand out. She is funny and imaginative, and €œBookish€ lands a step above run-of-the-mill romantic comedy fare.€Â€"The Washington Post
€œAbbi Waxman offers up a quirky, eccentric romance that will charm any bookworm€¦. For anyone who€s ever wondered if their greatest romance might come between the pages of books they read, Waxman offers a heartwarming tribute to that possibility.€Â--Entertainment Weekly
The author of Other People€s Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best to fly under everyone's radar.
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Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own...shell.
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The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.
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When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all€"or mostly all€"excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?
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Nina considers her options.
1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)
2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).
3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)
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It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page.