Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Book Excerpt:

"Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage’s collapse might help her reclaim her life and find love.

Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite…
 
Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her too-good-to-work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. But, when former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne’er do well husband, Nora’s life will never be the same.
 
The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but the need in his eyes makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity, depending on how you look. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.
 
Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best love story—the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. This kind of love is bigger than the big screen."

Title: Nora Goes Off Script
Author: Annabel Monaghan
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:
"Nora Goes Off Script" by Annabel Monaghan
My Assessment:

'Nora Goes Off Script' was a good read where she was rearing her two children by herself since her husband had left her...now a single mom. Nora had a good job where her screenplay was sold to Hollywood. Currently, they are filming what happened in her book [about her marriage] in part of her house. When the filming ends, the male star asks to stay for a week longer. What will happen from this situation if Noral and Leo become involved? How will Nora's children Authur and Bernadette think of this? As time moves on and Leo has to leave due to his job, what will Nora's son do to cause quite a situation for his mother? I will say I wasn't happy with what that son did, but due to how his father had treated them, I guess one could understand this ten-year-old way of thinking. However, the grown-ups should have talked, and maybe questions would have been answered much sooner. You will have to pick up this good read and see how well this author brings it all out. The story will keep one turning the pages to find how well it turns out!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam for the ARC.