Summer Author Series – Can’t Look Away by Carola Lovering

Summer Author Series: Carola Lovering

Join us as Ocean House owner and author, Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with our featured author. This week, author Carola Lovering will be discussing (and signing) her newly published novel: Can’t Look Away. Refreshments will be served, including wine and light bites!

Please note, tickets purchased for this event are non-refundable. A copy of their book, from Savoy Bookshop & Cafe, is included in the cost of the ticket.

About Can’t Look Away

“Lovering delivers another winner…a propulsive page-turner about young love and second chances. You won’t be able to put this down.” ―Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me

“Fans of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins will enjoy this one.” ―Publishers Weekly

In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in Brooklyn, she locks eyes with the lead singer, Jake Danner, and can’t look away. Molly and Jake fall quickly and deeply in love, especially after he writes a hit song about her that puts his band on the map.

Nearly a decade later, Molly has given up writing and is living in Flynn Cove, Connecticut with her young daughter and her husband Hunter―who is decidedly not Jake Danner. Their life looks picture-perfect, but Molly is lonely; she feels out of place with the other women in their wealthy suburb, and is struggling to conceive their second child. When Sabrina, a newcomer in town, walks into the yoga studio where Molly teaches and confesses her own fertility struggles, Molly believes she’s finally found a friend.

But Sabrina has her own reasons for moving to Flynn Cove and befriending Molly. And as Sabrina’s secrets are slowly unspooled, her connection to Molly becomes clearer––as do secrets of Molly’s own, which she’s worked hard to keep buried.

Meanwhile, a new version of Jake’s hit song is on the radio, forcing Molly to confront her past and ask the ultimate questions: What happens when life turns out nothing like we thought it would, when we were young and dreaming big? Does growing up mean choosing with your head, rather than your heart? And do we ever truly get over our first love?