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Title details for London Is the Best City in America by Laura Dave - Available

London Is the Best City in America

A Novel

by Laura Dave
Rebecca Lowman
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A tender and quirky novel about the romantic choices we make from the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told Me
Emmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh’s wedding. She has spent the last three years in a fishing town in Rhode Island and, having little to show for it, she doesn’t particularly want to answer the questions she is sure to face about her (ex)-fiance, her (questionable) career choices, her (unknown) future. But she is still shocked when her typically resolute brother Josh confesses he is having doubts about his imminent marriage – and he asks Emmy the hardest question of all: what do I do now?

With seventy-two hours until the wedding, Emmy embarks with Josh on a road trip to help him find a mystery woman, and to answer some long overdue questions about who he wants to spend his life with. It isn’t only Josh who has some lessons to learn. Along the way, Emmy discovers some undeniable truths about what she wants from her own life; and she begins to realize that perhaps her own happy ending is not as far away as it seems.

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  • Release date

    October 12, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593559505
      • File size: 219248 KB
      • Duration: 07:36:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Laura Dave does an outstanding job melding parallel stories of two 20-somethings. When Emmy returns home for her brother's wedding, painful memories return as not only she, but also her brother, have second thoughts about his upcoming nuptials. Narrator Renee Raudman possesses a sweet voice that is both realistic and believable for heroine Emmy. As Emmy and her brother help each other to see what's most important in life, listeners feel privy to the heartwarming but painful process everyone must go through in order to become the best person he or she can be. Listening to the duo of Dave and Raudman is much like experiencing a movie of the ear. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 13, 2006
      In Dave's winning debut, narrator Emmy Everett is a sensitive and introspective young woman who is emotionally and geographically paralyzed. Ever since ditching her sleeping fiancé in a Rhode Island motel, Emmy has lived in the quiet fishing village of Naragansett, working at a bait shop and putting together an interminable documentary on fishermen's wives. Three years pass, and her beloved big brother, Josh—funny, smart and successful—is getting married, forcing Emmy out of her self-imposed exile for a weekend in the New York City suburb of Scarsdale. With 72 hours to the wedding, Emmy finds Josh confused: does he want to marry Meryl, or be with Elizabeth, the woman he's been seeing on the side? Emmy agrees to join Josh on the eve of the wedding for a daylong trip to find Elizabeth and, hopefully, what "the right thing to do" really is. The intriguing Elizabeth, as well as the authenticity of the relationship between Emmy and Josh, make the conflict credible and involving. It's hard not to root for these vivid characters; even the heroine's high school flame, Josh's best friend Jaime Daniel Berringer, is distinctive and likable, making Emmy's interest in him contagious. Josh and Emmy's happy, exasperating parents and Josh's buoyant sister in-law-to-be round out the cast, giving readers plenty of reasons to enjoy this promising new author.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Rebecca Lowman is a strong choice for stories focused on women, and this novel about a young woman who is reluctantly returning home for a family wedding is no exception. Emily Everett, whose life seems to be in a holding pattern in small-town Rhode Island, drags herself back to New York for her brother's nuptials but is pleasantly surprised when he develops cold feet. As the siblings take off on a road trip to find the girl the soon-to-be groom can't put out of his mind, Lowman's upbeat and spunky delivery will keep listeners laughing. Fans of romantic comedies will find Lowman a talented narrator. Thanks to her empathetic delivery, listeners will be rooting for Emily--and her brother--to find happiness. M.R. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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