Love By the Book

Love By the Book

Author: Jessica George Listening Length: 12h 3m

Friendship is the love story you can count on. Remy is lucky. Her debut novel, based on her three best friends, became an instant bestseller when it was released, and her agent and publisher are clamoring for a follow-up. But just as Remy’s creative inspiration seems to leave her, so too do her friends: one moves to N...

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T oday was Simone’s birthday.

Weeks ago, she’d made the decision to ignore it, to treat turning thirty like any other day. It was a Saturday so there was no school, and she spent the morning making pancakes with a mountain of whipped cream and an aesthetic cascade of blue and red berries.

Birthdays had always been a big occasion in the Beduah household, and Simone’s parents had taught their children early never to lament age.