Big question… if you got a second chance (a ‘do-over’) at your current love, would you make the same call?
That’s what Rainbow Rowell, the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Fangirl, asks in this heart-wrenching – and hilarious – take on fate, time and true love.
In a way you could link of Landline as the sort of low-tech book version of Back to The Future, because the storyline does revolve around a time machine. Though as far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless…
Georgie McCool can’t travel into the past, but she can at least talk to it on the phone.
Georgie knows her marriage is in trouble. Things have begun to stagnate. Sure, she still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that doesn’t really seem to matter anymore.
The couple are supposed to be visiting Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, but Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer you see, and something’s ‘come up’ on her show so she needs to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that the family will be disappointed, but they would never pack their bags and go on holiday without her, right?
When her husband and the kids do actually leave for the airport, Georgie is left wondering if she’s finally ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts…
A truly charming read!
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