We've got some awesome material to get you in the mood for this book! An excerpt from Nancy Pearl reading the audiobook can be found here on Soundcloud, and below is a short intro to how America's librarian began writing her first novel:
"The characters of George and Lizzie appeared to me one night while I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep. All I knew at that moment were their names and how they'd met. Everything that follows, the specific events of their lives, their families, their friends, their marriage and all of that came much later, and very gradually. For several years I kept it all in my head, adding details as I thought of them. Eventually I had so much in my head that I felt a need to start writing it down. I didn't, at first, think of what I was doing as 'writing a novel.'"
"The characters of George and Lizzie appeared to me one night while I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep. All I knew at that moment were their names and how they'd met. Everything that follows, the specific events of their lives, their families, their friends, their marriage and all of that came much later, and very gradually. For several years I kept it all in my head, adding details as I thought of them. Eventually I had so much in my head that I felt a need to start writing it down. I didn't, at first, think of what I was doing as 'writing a novel.'"