As the author of four novels—most recently the instant New York Times bestseller, It’s a Love Story—Annabel Monaghan has solidified her status as one of the biggest names in summer romance. She has received well-earned comparisons to Nora Ephron and Elin Hildebrand and consistently topped beach-reading roundups from outlets like PEOPLE, The Boston Globe, Town & Country, the Skimm, and more.

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Monaghan makes her highly anticipated fifth outing this May with Dolly All The Time, another swoon-worthy, bingeable love story for readers of Carley Fortune and Emily Henry. Set in a fictional seaside town in Rhode Island, this charming, big-hearted novel centers around Dolly Brick, a hardworking single mom who returns to her hometown for the summer and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion. Monaghan’s knack for balancing pitch-perfect wit with high emotional stakes shine here once again, in an irresistible love story about the importance of caretaking, putting yourself first, and opening yourself up to love. With its picturesque coastal backdrop and endearing, lived-in characters you can’t help but root for, Dolly All The Time has all the makings of an instant summer classic and one of the biggest books of the season. 

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she and her son must move back to Whitfield, Rhode Island for the summer to save her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she has a chance encounter with Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome son of the Whitfield family, who finds himself with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, humiliating break-up—it’s in Dolly’s nature to help. What she doesn’t expect is for Stewart to offer her a proposition: pretend to date for the summer so he can rehabilitate his image while he bids to run the family business, and in return, he’ll pay for the repairs needed to salvage her house. Dolly already has three side hustles in addition to her day job; what’s a fourth but some extra cash and a chance to have a little fun?

But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for. Public dinners and high society benefits soon turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, and for the first time in a long time, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. Can she and Stewart end with something real if they started by pretending? And can someone who has never relied on anyone besides herself really start now?

By turns funny, poignant, and achingly romantic, Dolly All The Time is what summer romances are made of: sparkling chemistry, a touch of spice, and addictive, unputdownable fun.

Annabel Monaghan (photo: Kit Kittle)

Annabel Monaghan is the New York Times bestselling author of It’s a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. After twenty-five years in the suburbs of New York City, she now splits her time between Connecticut and Florida. Her novels have been translated into twenty-one languages.

Erin Somers (photo: Nina Subin)

Erin Somers is a reporter and news editor at Publishers Lunch. Her first novel, Stay Up with Hugo Best, was a Vogue Best Book of the Year in 2019. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, New York magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. She has been the recipient of an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the NYC Center for Fiction, a fellowship from the Millay Colony, and was a 2020 finalist for a National Magazine Award. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family.