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Title details for Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan - Available

Same Time Next Summer

by Annabel Monaghan
Dan Bittner
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“Bursting with the magic of first love, it’s everything I want in a summer romance.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER
Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple • Reader’s Digest • Country Living • The Skimm • BookBub • GoodReads
Beach Rules:
Do take long walks on the sand.
Do put an umbrella in every cocktail.
Do NOT run into your first love.
    Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right? 
    Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed—Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.

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  • Release date

    June 6, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593742013
      • File size: 200368 KB
      • Duration: 06:57:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 13, 2023
      Monaghan (Nora Goes Off Script) reunites first loves in this masterful romance. Once a free spirit, Sam Holloway has sought practicality and predictability ever since her high school boyfriend, Wyatt Pope, broke her heart, leading her to a stuffy job as an HR consultant and engagement to a straitlaced doctor, Jack. On the brink of losing her job due to a misstep with a client, Sam returns to her family’s Long Island summer home to regroup and scope out a potential wedding venue with Jack—only to discover that Wyatt, a singer songwriter, is also back in town to host a music festival. Sam is thrown (“Wyatt is a locked-away memory of a time I don’t want to go back to and a person I can barely remember being. And somehow he’s thirty feet away, right next door”), but believes she’ll be able to avoid Wyatt—until Jack’s parents show up and Jack asks to extend the trip. Sam’s mother urges her to find closure with Wyatt, but the closeness brings up old feelings and memories of carefree summers together at the beach, leading Sam to question her life choices. Monaghan nails the second-chance romance trope, allowing the love between her leads to rekindle slowly as they forge a satisfying path to forgiveness (the reveal that Wyatt’s love songs are about Sam doesn’t hurt). This is a knockout. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Rusoff Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Brittany Pressley and Dan Bittner narrate a bittersweet story of first love, second chances, and sun-kissed summers on the beach. Sam Holloway and Wyatt Pope were childhood best friends turned sweethearts, but they haven't spoken to each other in 14 years. Now Sam is back to plan her wedding. Pressley captures the complicated mix of feelings Sam experiences when returning to her childhood beach home: happiness, anxiety, comfort, dread. Bittner narrates Wyatt's flashbacks, charting his feelings for Sam over a dozen years as their relationship changed from friendship to love to something fundamentally broken. Together, Pressley and Bittner create an ode to the power of love and summers at the shore. K.M.P. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      Former lovers Sam and Wyatt are reunited for the first time in 14 years when Sam brings her fianc� Jack home in Monaghan's (Nora Goes Off Script) novel of delayed love. With well-matched narrators--Brittany Pressley, who voices Sam, and Dan Bittner, who voices Wyatt--listeners will feel the pull between the two. Pressley's animated performance conveys extrovert Sam's full range of emotions, including tenderness, anxiety, and insecurity over making the right choices. Her family is clearly not thrilled with her choice of a partner, though they want her to be happy. In contrast, Bittner's even-keeled performance communicates introvert Wyatt's reluctance to share his feelings about his past actions, hoping to spare Sam unnecessary heartache. As the tension between the two lovers builds, Wyatt can fully express himself only in song, while Sam struggles to move ahead with her life. The lack of communication between the two resolves when Sam makes a major decision regarding her future. VERDICT A fun romp at the beach house yields a satisfying ending. Share with fans of Carley Fortune's Every Summer After or Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation.--Stephanie Bange

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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