Landline is Rainbow Rowell’s first adult novel, but it has all the fantastic character and story of her young adult books. It is the story of Georgie and Neal, whose marriage is not going well. When Neal leaves with the children, Georgie discovers that she can talk to Neal-in-the-past via an old-style telephone.
What advice would you give the younger you… and would you listen?
As far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless. TV writer Georgie McCool can’t actually visit the past; all she can do is call it, and hope it picks up. Is she going crazy or is this a chance to make things right with her husband, Neal?
Maybe she can fix the things in their past that seem unfixable in the present. Maybe this stupid phone is giving her a chance to start over… if that’s what she wants.