THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery.
Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it—these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine—a charming reminder of a life that could be hers,
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery.
Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it—these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine—a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it.
On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food. But her new home isn’t quite matching up with the fantasy. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in the process, realizes there’s really no such thing as the way life should be.
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Paperback
- September 2014
- 320 Pages
- 9780062363541
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About Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline is the author of five novels. She lives outside of New York City and on the coast of Maine.
Praise
“Kline has a perfect sense of character and timing.” —Publishers Weekly
“[Christina Baker Kline] is not only a deft and snappy writer, but a true cartographer of the human heart.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer
“A book about love and disappointment and risk and risotto, utterly appealing on every level.” —Lauren Fox, author of Still Life with Husband
“An unassumingly beautiful story of human relationships and self-discovery…the ideal page-turning light read, with a tremendous payoff.” —People