Golden retriever shortstop + prickly reporter. More baseball than I ever thought I’d put in a book but about a third the baseball content you’d expect in a baseball book. Also feat.: people in sweaters unwillingly experiencing emotions, a very good dog, more steak dinners than anyone wants to think about, and an emotional support horror novel. You can buy it here.
Praise for You Should Be So Lucky:
- “If you read one romance this spring, make it this one” —New York Times Book Review
- “Deliciously slowburn” —Kirkus, starred review
- “A home run of a romance” –Booklist, starred review
- “A love letter to resilience and the power of bravery” —BookPage, starred review
- “Irresistible, poignant” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
- “Absolutely delicious” —LibraryJournal, starred review
The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.
Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.
Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.
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