Andrew Forrester

How the Story Goes (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this heartwarming, bookish debut, a young widower of a famous children's fantasy author teams up with a down-on-her-luck MFA dropout to write the final book in his late wife's series...and find their own perfect ending along the way.

Whit Longacre has a monumental task and a looming deadline. After his wife, Helen, died of cancer, she left him with their grieving eight-year-old daughter and a surprise in her will: the small task of writing the final book in her mega-popular children's fantasy series for her legions of waiting fans.

Whit is the author of moderately successful (but well-received!) literary mysteries. He doesn't have the first idea of how to complete Helen's beloved series, and his enigmatic wife seems to have left no clues behind on how the story is supposed to end. Writer's block is one thing, but to fail in fulfilling his wife's last wish? Whit is guilt-ridden and dodging calls in the school pick-up line from Helen's publisher and agent as the deadline fast approaches.

Then Whit meets Merritt Pryor, who works at the local bookstore in their small New England town. Merritt has moved back home after a disastrous affair led to her dropping out of her prestigious MFA program. When Whit realizes that Merritt is a superfan of the Greenwood Castle series, they come up with a plan to tackle the book together. For the first time in years, Merritt finds herself falling back in love with writing...and perhaps with the coauthor offering her the opportunity of a lifetime.

But when Whit uncovers a buried secret about Helen's final wishes, he questions everything about what he and Merritt have created together, endangering the tender, electrifying partnership that has transformed their lives.

Can Whit and Merritt come up with an ending that feels right...for both a beloved series and for their battered hearts?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063452114
• Artikelnr.: 75093418

Autorenporträt

Andrew Forrester is a writer and former English teacher whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Parents magazine. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century British literature and lives in Austin, Texas with his family. How The Story Goes is his first novel.

Rezensionen

"With exquisite worldbuilding, finely-drawn characters, and the perfect helping of escapism, Andrew Forrester has created an enchanting story that reads like the best of classic romance and cozy fantasy combined, as if Nora Ephron had penned a version of the Chronicles of Narnia for adults. How the Story Goes is a gift for book lovers." - Ashley Winstead, USA Today bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
"Brimming with charm, heart, and humor! Reading How the Story Goes is like stepping into your favorite Nora Ephron film. It is a salve for the world-weary soul." - Alex Kiester, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Missing Half
"Set in a dreamily charming New England town, How the Story Goes is about smart, empathetic humans wondering how you carry on when your life story has gone awry. I loved losing myself in the novel's world of bookstores and libraries, lingering over tea by roaring fires, rediscovering alongside Forrester's rich characters the pleasure of creating art and the solace of love." - Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters