Nora Goes Off Script (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 272 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"The perfect escape." —USA Today
"Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." —Shelf Awareness
Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post • USA Today • Cosmopolitan • Southern Living • Country Living • Business Insider • Buzzfeed • Book Riot • The Augusta Chronicle
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. 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 it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. 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 kind of love story—the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.
Customer Reviews
Highly Entertaining
Four Stars and a half Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭒
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan was very interesting as well as entertaining. It made me laugh but had some very emotional parts as well. I don’t normally enjoy books with movie stars as the main character, but this was a bit different, and I enjoyed it very much.
Nora Hamilton is a busy, recently divorced, screenwriter for The Romance Channel. When her lazy husband leaves her and their two children, she writes a script that could never be shown on The Romance Channel, as it’s the opposite of romance. Nobody is more surprised than Nora when a movie production company buys the rights and decides to make a film right there in her home. Most of the movie is filmed in and around The Tea House she has in her backyard.
After filming is complete, Leo, the hot movie star who played her husband in the movie, decides he wants to stay for another week. He offers her $1000 dollars a day, for seven days so he can stay in her tea house. She refuses at first but needs the money. He sleeps in the tea house and just seems to want to do normal things with Nora and her two children, Arthur and Bernadette. Can all this time together allow Nora and Leo to fall in love?
I really enjoyed this book. I loved all the characters, I don’t usually like the big movie star characters, but Leo was a bit different. He was reflecting on his life and his choices and enjoys the simple life at Nora’s house. Nora is just a bit quirky and a lot normal. It’s so easy to warm up to her, as she’s very easy to like. Her children, Arthur and Bernadette are adorable, but also realistic and not perfect (like most kids!).
The book starts out and pulled me right in. I was intrigued by the behind-the-scenes look at a film production at Nora’s house. Right away I was swept up in Nora’s world and enjoyed every minute of my visit with her, Leo, and her kids.
I highly recommend Nora Goes Off Script to anyone who enjoys romance. I received a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Great beach read
Very entertaining