It is funny a lot of times but the main idea remains sad. 4.From page one this book is sad and throughout the book the tone or mood is sad. This novel is moving and uplifting, a real pleasure to read. Neal sounds like a husband many women would covet, and Georgie’s family are amusingly eccentric. Rowell’s characters are appealing despite their flaws: the reader may want to shake a bit of sense into Georgie, but luckily she finds it on her own before it is too late. Something that might just give Georgie a change to fix what’s broken….Īs Georgie worries about her relationship, Rowell has her thinking back to how it all started, thus slowly revealing what was so right about Georgie and Neal, and what went wrong later.

With her writing going none too well, lonely, concerned about her marriage and with her own cell phone failing, Georgie ends up at her Mom’s place, in her old bedroom, using the big yellow rotary dial phone to ring the landline in Omaha. Especially when Neal doesn’t answer his cell phone. They still love each other, but Neal’s not happy, so how can she be? She’s not sure exactly when it broke, but when Neal takes Alice and Noomi home to his parents in Omaha for Christmas, while Georgie stays behind to work, she wonders if it’s the final straw.

But Georgie knows her marriage is broken. TV comedy writer Georgie McCool has been married to Neal Grafton for fifteen years and has two sweet and adorable daughters, Alice and Noomi. Landline is the fourth novel by American author, Rainbow Rowell. Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened? It's not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she's been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she's finally done it. She knows that Neal will be upset with her - Neal is always a little upset with Georgie - but she doesn't expect to him to pack up the kids and go without her. She's a TV writer, and something's come up on her show she has to stay in Los Angeles. Two days before they're supposed to visit Neal's family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can't go. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply - but that almost seems beside the point now. That it's been in trouble for a long time. Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble.

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